US EditionHegseth Overhauling Chaplain Corps, Targeting ‘New Age’ Concepts
- On Dec. 17, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered sweeping changes to the U.S. military Chaplain Corps in a roughly four-minute video posted to X.
- Blaming 'political correctness,' Hegseth argued it degraded chaplains, minimizing them as therapists rather than ministers and calling it part of an ongoing war on warriors.
- The Army's Spiritual Fitness Guide, released in August as a 112-page document developed after an III Corps study, mentions God one time but references feelings 11 times and playfulness nine times.
- He ordered the U.S. Army to scrap the Spiritual Fitness Guide immediately, Tony McCormick confirmed discontinuation, and the Pentagon will streamline religious affiliation codes that ballooned to over two hundred, with more reforms coming.
- The move reflects Hegseth’s focus on culture-war issues and follows Trump administration initiatives, with around 82% of service members of faith and Franklin Graham thanking him for emphasizing spiritual well‑being.
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Hegseth to Revamp Chaplain Corps, Scrap Spiritual Guide Offering ‘New Age Notions’
The U.S. Department of War revealed immediate changes to the Chaplain Corps as it tries to revive what it called the “spiritual backbone” of the military. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Dec. 16 that his department would condense the Faith and Belief Coding System, recenter the focus of chaplains, and eliminate what called the “unacceptable and unserious” Army Spiritual Fitness Guide. “We’re tossing it,” Hegseth said in a post on X. “…
Hegseth Restores Faith to U.S. Troops
War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the military will end its use of the Army Spiritual Fitness Guide, instead bolstering the Christian faith through the use of chaplains. “Chaplains are intended to be the spiritual and moral backbone of our nation’s forces,” Hegseth said, noting that George Washington founded the Chaplain Corps in 1775. “In an atmosphere of political correctness and secular humanism, chaplains have been minimized, viewed …
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