ABSTRACT
The chaplain was the pastor for those who professed no faith, and in some instances insisted that they desired no religious expression at all. Many soldiers had great respect for the chaplain, one who was exposed to the same dangers as were the soldier, but who was committed to being present without taking up arms to protect the chaplain’s own life. Through Clinical Pastoral Education (C.P.E.) the worlds of chaplaincy in the hospital and chaplaincy in the military began to merge, as more and more military chaplains found themselves taking training in civilian institutions. Civilian C.P.E. students and supervisors were often pleasantly surprised at the breadth of the military chaplain’s experiences, and the chaplain’s ability to deal with authority issues, while daily living in a world in which authority issues had to be easily dealt with and incorporated into the chaplain’s being.
