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I am a U.S. Army Infantryman / Paratrooper - Long Range Surveillance Detachment (LRSD)  Team Leader turned Chaplain.  My life has been a series of pendulum swings - go into the ministry - run (like Jonah) from the ministry & joining the Army - leave the Army - enter full time ministry - finally culminating with entering the U.S. Army Chaplaincy => Reconciling Both Military Service and Full Time Ministry! 

As an Enlisted Soldier and Reserve Chaplain Candidate / Chaplain, my assignments included the:


      * Detachment 1, Company C, 1^st – 134^th Infantry, Mechanized Infantry Track Commander, Omaha, Nebraska National Guard

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Long Range Surveillance Detachment, 1^st – 167^th Cavalry Squadron, 35^th Infantry Division, Reconnaissance Team Leader, Camp Ashland, Nebraska National Guard

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B Company, 1^st – 136^th Infantry, 47^th Infantry Division, Squad Leader, Willmar, Minnesota National Guard

  * Individual Ready Reserve, Chaplain Candidate & Chaplain, Missouri


As a Chaplain,  my assignments include the: 

   *5^th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Ft. Campbell, KY

   *1^st Battalion, 10^th Special Forces Group (Airborne)

– Böblingen-
 Stuttgart, Germany

* 1^st Battalion, 5^th Infantry Regiment; 1^st Stryker Brigade Combat Team,  25^th Infantry Division, Ft. Lewis, WA
* 1^st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25^th Infantry Division, Ft.
                 Lewis, WA

     * 62^nd  Medical Brigade, Ft. Lewis, WA

   
  
* Command and General Staff Officers' College, Ft. Leavenworth, KS 
 

  * I Corps Headquarters, Ft. Lewis, WA


  * 82^nd Airborne Division (Combined Joint Task Force - 82, Bagram, Afghanistan), Ft. Bragg, NC


 * U.S. Army Pacific Command, Ft. Shafter, HI

                                             (I took the below right photo in
                                                           Untersulmettingen, Germany during
                                                           a joint jump with the German
                                                           Special Forces in 1998)