christianity in the paras

[Obi Wan Kenobi]

Danny,

I'm not religious.

However there are military chaplains in every branch of the armed forces. Units regularly conform with Christian celebrations and festivals, services etc.

Major Chris Keeble took command of 2 Para at Goosegreen following the death of Col H Jones. He is a committed Christian and believes that his actions at the battle were guided by divine intervention to prevent further loss of life. He says he knelt and prayed for guidance and that the plan came to him from God.

As an aside, the Argies were very religious. Almost all of the prisoners I encountered carried Christian artifacts or paraphenalia (crucifixes, beads, pictures of Mary etc).

After the surrender I was at Port Howard for the 'clean up'. One day I was talking to some civilian women. They told me that when a Brit Harrier was shot down over the settlement, a group of Argy Special Forces had just got off a helicopter. On witnessing the plane spiral out of control, they dropped to one knee with heads bowed. The lady asked an Argy officer nearby what they were doing. He replied that they were praying for the pilot!

[_Mark_]

Getting a chance to see the Pardre was mega, get some quality head

Didn't know they had altar boy's in the forces?

[gpw2009]

Getting a chance to see the Pardre was mega, get some quality head

Didn't know they had altar boy's in the forces?

Gets lonley after a while!

[Fusilier]

_Mark_ wrote:
gpw2009 wrote:
Getting a chance to see the Pardre was mega, get some quality head


Didn't know they had altar boy's in the forces?


Gets lonley after a while!


_Mark_ Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 6:57 pm Post subject:

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gpw2009 wrote:
Getting a chance to see the Pardre was mega, get some quality head


Didn't know they had altar boy's in the forces?

One up the bum no harm done............................... oops thats my other forum, sorry.

[colmurph]

This might not be the most popular subject but I'm thinking about leaving university as its boring and joining the Parachute Regiment and was just wondering, being a Christian myself, how accepting people are of it and if they treat you any differently? I'm not the sort of person to ram it down anyone's throat so don't know why I'd have a problem,but was just interested to see if anyone had any experience of it? Thanks!

Edited for obvious reasons.I know you are new to the site but texting is unacceptable.

My son after graduating west point in 1988 went to Iraq as an Infantry Platoon leader with A Co. 505th, 82nd Airborne Division. On his return he decided to become a minister and went to divinity school. One of his first assignments was as Chaplain to the 1st BN, 75th Ranger Regiment. He was well received by the troops who especially liked it when he would perform the duties as Jumpmaster (What can go wrong when the "Sky Pilot" is the JM?) He went back to Iraq as the 2d Brigade Chaplain of the 82nd Div. for 3 tours then was transferred to the 5th Special Forces Group aas Group Chaplain and did 3 more tours. During these tours he often went "Down Range" with the A-Teams. I don't much know about religion in the British Military but it's a pretty big thing with the US Military.
I would guess that about 70% attend religious services on a regular basis.