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The U.S. Army CHAPLAIN CORPS JOURNAL THE YEAR OF LEADER DEVELOPMENT CY18 Edition 2 The U.S. Army Chaplain Corps Journal Chaplain (MG) Paul Hurley Chaplain (COL) Brian Ray Chief of Chaplains Journal Executive Editor The Journal Review Board Chaplain (COL) Jim Boggess Chaplain (COL) Joey Byrd Chaplain (COL) Greg Edison USARC Command Chaplain ARCENT Command Chaplain Cyber Command Chaplain Chaplain (COL) Bill Green SGM Ward Gros Chaplain (COL) Ben Hodge USARPAC Command Chaplain 377th TSC Senior Religious State Chaplain, Affairs Specialist North Carolina National Guard CY18 Edition 3 CSM Tim Lowe SGM Timothy Metcalf Chaplain (COL) James Palmer USACHCS Command Sergeant Major IMCOM Religious Affairs Specialist TRADOC Command Chaplain SGM Anthony Pamplin SGM Dieletta Taylor Paul Villano USAR Senior 56M TRADOC Religious Affairs Specialist USACHCS Technical Editor Chaplain (COL) Dave Wake Chaplain (COL) Bobby Whitlock SGM Horace Williams Combine Arms Center FORSCOM Command Chaplain FORSCOM Religious Affairs Specialist Command Chaplain 61 32 17 51 11 37 91 Senior Leader Reflections Scholarly Writing from Our Corps (cont.) 06 The Chief of Chaplains / 53 Developing a U.S. Army Chaplain Regimental Sergeant Major Corps Understanding and Response to Moral Injury by Chaplain (COL) Gary Fisher Refelctions on Our Journal 63 Developing Others: a Quantitative Analysis 07 Forty-Plus Years of Chaplain Corps of the Perceptions of Leader Development Knowledge: Now Only a Click Away for U.S. Army Chaplain Corps Soldiers by Chaplain (COL) Brian Ray, Ph.D. by Chaplain (MAJ) John Scott 88 Spiritual Imprinting in Healing Scholarly Events Within Our Corps by Chaplain (CPT) Christopher Salerno 10 International Military Ethics Symposium 91 Religious Support Teams: A Key by Chaplain (MAJ) Nathan H. White, Ph.D. Contributor to Readiness by SGM James Morris 14 CAC NEXT GEN Religious Support Symposium Current Thought by Chaplain (MAJ) Josh Gilliam 17 CCH Religious Leader Symposium 97 The Profession of Arms by Chaplain (MAJ) Sam Ricco 103 The Evolving Operating Environment Scholarly Writing from Our Corps History 19 Religious Diplomacy: Exporting Military Chaplain Professionalism 111 The Chaplains Make Good: U.S. Army by Chaplain (LTC) Kurt Mueller, D.Min. Chaplains in the Great War 1917-1919 by Dr. John Boyd 34 Religious Support Interoperability by Chaplain (LTC) Eddie Cook, D.Min. 124 Great Articles from the Chaplain Corps Journal Over the Past Four Decades 39 The United States Army Active Component by Chaplain (COL) Brian Ray, Ph.D. Chaplain Talent Management Model by Chaplain (COL) Rajmund Kopec Forging Servant Leaders 125 Book Recommendations and Reviews 131 Leader Development Resources for You 6 The U.S. Army Chaplain Corps Journal / Senior Leader Reflections The Chief of Chaplains The Army Mission remains constant: To sacred calling to serve God and Country; deploy, fight, and win our Nation’s wars and all other Chaplain Corps members by providing ready, prompt, and sus- must energetically support Chaplains in tained land dominance by Army forces that unique calling. As we continue to across the full spectrum of conflict, as emphasize Leader Development, while part of the Joint Force. Nested within the we work together to strengthen our Army Mission, the Army Chaplain Corps network, we celebrate the renaissance Mission — our Corps’ unique purpose — of our very own U.S. Army Chaplain remains constant: To build Army spiritual Corps Journal, which has lain dormant readiness to deploy, fight, and win our for several years. I am excited to present Nation’s wars, by providing reliable and this new, improved, modern tool for relevant world-class religious support, leader development across our Corps. as a unique element of the Army that is My sincere thanks to the members of fully engaged across the full spectrum the journal review board, as well as the of conflict. authors of the articles in this publication, for their leadership and contributions to We achieve mission success most our Corps. That kind of collaboration is effectively when the Chaplain Corps exactly what we need across the Corps, Chaplain (MG) Paul K. Hurley operates as a fully integrated network as we continue to work together to get U.S. Army Chief of Chaplains of mutually supportive Army religious even better in our mission of building support professionals. Chaplains must Army spiritual readiness. be committed to serving in the Army as a Regimental Sergeant Major The United States Army is the most lethal as a vital component of enhancing Army and capable ground combat force in his- readiness; and this revived Journal will tory. As a special branch within the Army, help all of us continue to improve the the Chaplain Corps is the most multifac- religious support capabilities we bring to eted and capable chaplaincy in history. the Army. I am particularly proud of the The keys to this success have been the work senior Religious Affairs Specialists faithfulness of Chaplain Corps members; contributed to the Journal’s revival, both the quality of the Corps’ Leaders; the as members of the Editorial Board and as superiority of the Corps’ education, train- professional contributors of important ing, and development; and the ability of content in these pages. May this Journal the Corps – Regular Army, Army National help us all continue to support and chal- Guard, and Army Reserve – to care for lenge one another in becoming even bet- Soldiers, their Families, and Army Civil- ter at building Army spiritual readiness. ians, within a complex and continuously changing environment. The Corps’ Chap- lains, Religious Affairs Specialists, Civil- ian Directors of Religious Education, and other Army Civilians operate together RSGM Ralph Martinez Regimental Sergeant Major Reflections on Our Journal / CY18 Edition 7 Forty-plus Years of Chaplain Corps Knowledge: Now Only a Click Away by Chaplain (COL) Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. The U.S. Army Chaplain Corps has a long and proud tradi- journal from 1972 through 2015. Over those forty-plus tion of producing a top-quality academic journal. Our years, our Corps’ journal was published under three Corps published the first edition of its branch-specific different titles: journal in January of 1972. The Chief of Chaplains at the time, CH (MG) Gerhardt Hyatt, said the following about Military Chaplains’ Review this new and important endeavor regarding our branch The Army Chaplaincy: Professional Bulletin of the publishing content for the academic community as well Unit Ministry Team as practitioners in the field. The Chaplain Corps Journal: The Professional Bul- The publication of this initial volume is a signal event letin for Religious Support in the history of our branch. It means that a medium for the dissemination of scholarly articles and research Within the pages of the 100- findings has been provided. Since our whole reason for plus editions of our Corps’ being chaplains must always be tied first to religious journal, there is a tremendous ministrations, the contents of the journal will be that wellspring of knowledge on which assists military clergy in their very special call- topics that are just as impor- ing. Our publication should also speak to the most vital tant to our Army today as problems faced….and possibilities seen….in the ripe they were decades ago. The fields and vineyards where chaplains labor. My hope is chart on the following page that the tremendous resources of scholarship and ex- shows an analysis of the perience which are in our ranks….and available to us CH (MG) Gerhardt Hyatt main themes of the articles in the religious groups we represent....will be reflected published in our journal. It is not surprising that many of in a growing collection of volumes across the years. the main topics focus on important areas like leadership, ethics, counseling, training, and homiletics. Imagine the In keeping with Chaplain Gerhardt’s vision of “a growing many lessons learned over the years from our brother and collection of volumes across the years”, the Chaplain sister chaplains, as well as the wise counsel and knowl- Corps produced over 100 editions of a branch-focused 8 The U.S. Army Chaplain Corps Journal / Reflections on Our Journal edge of our religious affairs special- Through the tremendous support of The forty articles listed on the fol- ists, contained in the thousands of the team of librarians at University lowing page are just a sample of pages in our Corps’ journal! of Florida Digital Collections, every the knowledge that our chaplains single article published over the past and religious affairs specialists have Until recently, that rich depository of forty-plus years in our branch’s jour- produced over the past 45 years. knowledge has only been accessible nal is only a click away. To access the Fortunately that wisdom is now only by visiting the shelves of the library 100-plus editions of our Corps’ jour- a click away for our Army by visiting at the US Army Chaplain Center and nal, visit the USACHCS Training Por- the USACHCS Training Portal (usa- School. tal. Many of the articles written over chcstraining.army.mil/journal). May the years by chaplains and religious we who serve God and Country in Fortunately, that significant limita- affairs specialists provide a great the Chaplain Corps continue to be tion on accessing this tremendous starting point for developing UMT enriched and blessed by this wisdom body of knowledge is no longer an is- training plans as well as conducting from those in our branch who have sue for our Army and our Corps! Ear- OPD and NCODP. The following page come before us. lier this year, CH (COL) Jeff Hawkins shows just a few examples of articles and I set a goal by establishing the that are now available online for our following task and standard. Army. TASK: Make the entire 40-plus years of content contained in the previous editions of the Chaplain Corps’ jour- Main Topics of Articles from 1972 - 2015 nal accessible to key stakeholders (e.g., all military services, coalition partners, VA personnel, civilian pas- toral practitioners, historians, etc.).