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Chaplains to Hm Forces Committee COMMITTEE ON CHAPLAINS TO HM FORCES May 2017 PROPOSED DELIVERANCE The General Assembly: 1. Receive the Report. 2. Reaffirm the support of the Church of Scotland for all who serve in Her Majesty’s Forces as Chaplains, and thank them for their outstanding service to Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force personnel and their families. 3. Acknowledge with particular gratitude the dedicated service of Chaplains on operations and the immeasurable support shown by their own families. 4. Commend to the prayers of all members of the Church of Scotland not just our Chaplains but all who serve in HM Forces and their families. 5. Commend to eligible ministers of the Church consideration of service as a Chaplain to HM Forces – Regular, Reserve and Cadet Forces. 6. Approve the Armed Forces Covenant described in Appendix 4 of the Report. REPORT 1. Last year the General Assembly instructed the 3. It should perhaps be clarified that the Armed Forces Committee on Chaplains to HM Forces to work together Community is a community made up of Serving Personnel, with the Council of Assembly, the Ministries Council and both Regular and Reservists, Veterans and all their families. the Social Care Council to examine the principles The Armed Forces Covenant is therefore about supporting enshrined in the Armed Forces Covenant and present to people, not Government Policy. Signing the Armed Forces the General Assembly of 2017 a Covenant to which the Covenant would not impinge the Kirk’s ability to challenge Church can subscribe. the government on any aspect of Defence Policy. 2. The Armed Forces Covenant endorses two principles: 4. In his 2006 Dimbleby lecture, General Sir Mike Jackson said, “The Armed Forces' contract with the nation which Firstly: No member of the Armed Forces Community they serve - and from which they very largely recruit is to should face disadvantage in the provision of public and take risks; if need be, the risk of life. But this must be a two- commercial services compared to any other citizen. way contract; it has to be reciprocal. Military operations cost in blood and treasure, because risk-free military Secondly: In some circumstances special treatment may service, which some seem to think is possible, is simply a be appropriate especially for the injured or bereaved. contradiction in terms. It is our servicemen who pay the cost in blood - the nation must therefore pay the cost in treasure.” 19 19/2 CHAPLAINS TO HM FORCES COMMITTEE At that time, General Jackson felt that such reciprocity was 7. In 2013 the General Assembly passed a Deliverance not being honoured fully by government and in much of encouraging Presbyteries to appoint Veterans’ Champions the Armed Forces. However, the situation has improved to assist in signposting Veterans in need to appropriate greatly in recent years and the Armed Forces Covenant support, but few have done so to date. This Armed Forces now has statutory backing. In Scotland, the Covenant has Covenant is a solemn undertaking for action in support of been signed by the Scottish Government, Police Scotland, those who have defended our Nation and the Committee the Scottish Prison Service, the Department for Work and commends it to the General Assembly in that spirit. Pensions, every Council and every Health Board, all of whom have also appointed regional Veterans’ Champions In the name of the Committee who are delivering positive effect. The churches of the GORDON T CRAIG, Convener United Kingdom have also engaged with the Covenant, JOHN A H MURDOCH, Vice-Convener the Church of England signed a Covenant in 2015 and JOHN K THOMSON, Secretary the Methodist Church and Baptist Union are actively examining the procedure. ADDENDUM 5. It is estimated that there are around 260,000 veterans in Scotland at present, almost 6% of the population. And Rev John A H Murdoch when you add the families that make up the veterans This year’s Assembly marks the conclusion of John community, they represent almost one in 10 of Scotland’s Murdoch’s term as Vice-Convener. He has served the people. While their experiences, aspirations, Committee diligently and faithfully and brought to its vulnerabilities, successes and failures are varied, veterans work his experience as a Chaplain in the Royal Army ultimately share only one thing in common. They Chaplains’ Department; and we thank him for his contracted themselves to a job that required them significant contribution. regularly and uniquely to make considerable personal In the name of the Committee sacrifices in the service of the Nation. A job where, for good reasons, the working hours liability was almost GORDON T CRAIG, Convener unlimited, no union negotiated pay and conditions, JOHN K THOMSON, Secretary compulsory personal and family mobility was frequent and, when required, they placed their lives at risk. APPENDIX 1 6. However, contrary to widespread opinion, Veterans CHAPLAINCY IN THE ROYAL NAVY are not all “Mad, Bad and Sad.” Many exaggerated tales on issues such as PTSD rates and Prison occupancy have Today, the Royal Navy has up to 30 ships and submarines, gained currency but are simply not true. In reality, the and over 30,000 of our young men and women committed vast majority of Veterans leave the Armed Forces and live to operations at home and around the world. The Royal productive and happy civilian lives. However, there is a Navy continues to fulfil our standing commitments, from small minority who do not; their difficulties are very real supporting British overseas territories in the Caribbean and encompass a range of needs including physical and and the Falklands to the Royal Marines’ on-going support mental health, employment and training, housing and to counter-terrorism at home. A ballistic missile benefits, and simply learning to live a civilian life. submarine is currently on patrol deterring state based threats against the UK and our NATO allies, as has been the case 24 hours a day, every day, for the last 47 years. CHAPLAINS TO HM FORCES COMMITTEE 19/3 In Northern Europe and the Baltic, we are responding to The Rev Mark Dalton RN is part of the team at HMS the highest level of Russian naval activity since the end NEPTUNE in Faslane, the RN home of the Submarine of the Cold War. Whilst in the Mediterranean and the Service and mine hunters vessels. Chaplain Dalton Aegean, we continue to work alongside our European engages daily with many sailors and marines who are partners to counter arms-traffickers and people based near Helensburgh and ministers to those Service smugglers, and to stem the flow of migrants. Meanwhile, persons who will deploy frequently for months at a time. in the Gulf, the Royal Navy is working hard to protect international shipping in a region which is essential to the The Rev Dr Mark Davidson RN has served for the last year UK’s economic security. as the Chaplain recruiter for the Naval Chaplaincy Service. In this role he has tried to engage with, and encourage, To enable the Royal Navy to operate in a fast changing clergy from the Church of Scotland and all other world we are seeing a renewal of the whole Fleet. The recognised denominations to explore Ministry with the two new aircraft carriers, HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH and HMS Royal Navy, either in a full time or a reservist capacity. PRINCE OF WALES, will soon be the bedrock of British defence policy, projecting power and positive influence There are currently two Church of Scotland Maritime worldwide. Additionally, the General Purpose Frigate Reserve Chaplains. The Rev Dr Marjory McLean RNR, (Type 31) is planned to enter service in the 2020s based at HMS SCOTIA (Rosyth), was able to deploy with alongside the more high-end next-generation Type 26 one of the Hydrographic Ships to the Mediterranean in frigate. Both classes of frigate are due to be assembled 2016. Once on board, she was involved in ministering to here in Scotland. many involved in the mammoth migrant rescue effort and wrote very movingly in Life and Work as a response to The Royal Navy Chaplains from the Church of Scotland her experiences. And finally, the Rev Jamie Milliken RNR; have been engaged across a wide spectrum of ministries based at HMS DALRIADA (Govan) was deployed to the across the Fleet. Both Regular and Reserve Chaplains have Antarctic with HMS PROTECTOR, the RN’s Ice Patrol ship. been deployed to frontline units where their ministry has Jamie’s presence on board was much valued by the Ship’s been greatly valued, whilst others have faced the varied Company whilst the deployment afforded him a unique challenges of working within diverse shore side experience of Ministry in an extreme environment; a establishments; teaching, caring and seeking to bear challenge he thoroughly embraced and appreciated. witness to the love of God in Christ to all in their charge. APPENDIX 2 The Rev Dr Scott Shackleton RN is currently the Principal of the Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre (AFCC) at Amport CHAPLAINCY IN THE ARMY House, Andover. This is a highly challenging appointment as he is responsible for the delivery of Chaplain and As part of the Army 2020 plan and the Army Operating Chaplaincy training across the Royal Navy, the Army and Model the Royal Army Chaplains' Department (RAChD) the Royal Air Force. He leads a team of Chaplains from all remains committed to ensuring that every deployable unit three Services in this quest and, with the proposed closure Regular or Reserve is provided with a chaplain. In order of Amport House, he has to constantly engage with the to meet this requirement the Army and the RAChD relies highest levels of MOD policy to ensure the provision and heavily upon what is called the ‘Whole Force Concept’ ethos of the AFCC can still be met for the future where manpower is found from the Regular and the generations yet to come.
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