Navy Chaplains and Confidentiality               

 "By patient, sympathetic labors with the crew, day in, day out, and through many a night, every chaplain I know contributed immeasurably to the moral courage of our fighting men; none of this appears in statistics. Most of it necessarily secret between pastor and confidant. It is for that toil, in the cause both of God and country, that I honor the chaplain most." -Fleet Admiral Chester A. Nimitz, USN

Click on the links below for more information and resources on the role of Navy Chaplains to guard and protect an individual's confidentiality:

• SECNAV Instruction 1730.9: Confidential Communications to Chaplains
• Confidential Communications Fact Sheet
• Confidential Communications Frequently Asked Questions  
• Message to the Fleet on Confidential Communications to Chaplain-(YouTube version)
• Message to the Fleet on Confidential Communications to Chaplain-(navy.mil version)  
• Confidential Communications to Chaplains: You Hold the Key flyer
• Confidentiality with Chaplains: Sailors Hold the Key-Navy News Story
• Confidentiality with Chaplains: Marines Hold the Key-Marines.mil News Story
• Confidential Communications to Navy chaplains: A right and a privilege for Sailors, Marines and Families-Navstress blog

Contact your command chaplain today! Don't know who your nearest chaplain is?
Call Navy 311 to request chaplain support in your area: 1-855-NAVY-311 or text to: NAVY311@navy.mil  

(U.S. Navy photo by Chris Desmond)