NORFOLK, Va. — In an all-out push to meet the mental health needs of sailors, the Navy is embedding chaplains as a permanent part of guided-missile destroyer crews. While the U.S. Navy Chaplain Corps ...

WASHINGTON — The Navy is poised to meet its goal of having a chaplain serving aboard each of its destroyers by 2025, culminating a yearslong effort to have dedicated emotional and spiritual counselors ...

Most of us find our greatest mentors in the most unexpected places, and they rarely look like what we imagined.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — If there are not enough chaplains to go around in a future mass casualty event, the Navy is now reaching out to civilian clergy to provide a helping hand. The U.S. Fleet Forces ...

The Rev. Sam Godfrey, left, and Col. Mitchell I. Lewis, a chaplain with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, say a prayer Wednesday, Sept 9, 2015 during the Vicksburg District's Blessing of the Fleet on ...

(The Center Square) – Secretary of War Pete Hegseth issued a new directive to revamp the U.S. military Chaplain Corps. The new directive was issued one week after a Department of Justice Religious ...

Lt. David Kang, a resident of Rochester Hills, is training at Naval Chaplaincy School to serve as a chaplain for America’s seafaring warfighters, according to a press release from the Navy Office of ...

Navy Chaplain Lt. Cmdr. Ben Garrett performs the sacrament of the Eucharist in the chapel of the USS Bataan on Wednesday, March 15, 2023 at Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia. (John C. Clark/AP) In ...