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 ...
WASHINGTON -- The Navy has punished more than 40 chaplains over the last decade for offenses ranging from sexual abuse to fraud -- a misconduct rate much higher than for other officers, according to ...
The Navy chaplains were getting toughening-up training, too. At Virginia’s College of William & Mary (Williamsburg) they hiked, worked in the gymnasium between classes. At the course’s climax they ...