Maj. David Jordan, chaplain for 90th Troop Command, Oklahoma Army National Guard, travels with a group of Soldiers on a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from Fort Chaffee, Arkansas to Camp Gruber to be baptized. Maj. Jordan explains the importance of a chaplain in the National Guard. (Oklahoma Army National Guard Video by Spc. Reece Heck)
Transcript
Yeah, as a chaplain, we do kinda two things: we provide and advise. There’s a couple different ways to say that, so basically our number one reason for existing, any chaplain in the Army, is to provide religious support, mainly specifically chapel services and religious services, so a chaplain is extremely busy in a combat environment, and I certainly was. Chaplains are so unique, there’s very few of us. There’s one per battalion level and higher, and so there’s nobody else who speaks from that perspective of the importance of religious support and the spiritual side, the spiritual fitness of a unit. There’s literally one person in an entire battalion or brigade who’s doing that, so it’s crucial. There’s nobody else who speaks with that voice. I know these soldiers are gonna remember this long after they take the uniform off, and this is going to pour into them spiritually, and if anybody out there wants to do something like that and wants to, their whole mission is to take care of the spiritual well-being of somebody else, then come join us and put this uniform on, wear the cross, and let’s get after it. And all God’s people said?
[Congregation] Amen.