In an unprecedented show of attendance and participation, the Navy Chaplain Corps' Strategic Leadership Symposium in Albuquerque, N.M., March 3-5, is being called one of the most successful ever held.
Like the nation, the Navy is extremely diverse. The term diversity encompasses not only the categories of race, age, gender and national origin, but also religion.
In 1979, the Navy established the religious program specialist (RP) rating to provide Navy chaplains with professional support personnel adept in religious programming and administration.
The Chaplain Corps 2009 Professional Development and Training Course was held April 21-23 at Naval Support Activity Naples Capodichino Base for military chaplains and medical and religious specialists.
A 15-year active-duty Marine Corps captain traded in his green gabardines for a U.S. Navy-issued khaki uniform Sept. 16 at a ceremony at Breckenridge Hall on board Marine Corps Base Quantico.
The chiefs pinning ceremony dates back to April 1, 1898 and is among one of the most admired and unique Navy rights of passage. Each September, chiefs from all over the Navy gather to welcome newly frocked members of the mess.
The chaplain of the Marine Corps/deputy chief of Navy Chaplains visited Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Oct. 2 to discuss the Chaplain Corps and to meet service members in the region.
The U.S. Navy Chaplain Corps recently relocated and consolidated its chaplain and enlisted religious program specialist (RP) training schools from Newport, R.I and Meridian, Miss. to a facility at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C.
A component of Marines from the NATO Band, base personnel from AFSouth and others went to Stelle Degli Angeli, a school for underprivileged children ages one to six in Mondragone, Caserta, Italy to distribute donated toys and to have a little fun Dec. 16.