Re: [TML] Imperial Navy Chaplains
Kurt Feltenberger 29 Apr 2022 15:26 UTC
On 4/29/2022 11:15 AM, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via
tml list) wrote:
> If there's one thing that's consistent w/ Mongoose pubs, it's that a
> lot of things get screwed up.
>
> I can't count how many times I've heard this refrain here on the TML;
> "Mongoose doesn't know 'Traveller'."
>
> Just write this off as yet another foul up.
> Mongoose has "done it again"!
>
> p.s. If you've ever watched the US TV series MASH, you'd see how the
> US Army was & probably still is. The ,catholic, chaplain was a 1st LT
> & during the series became upset when he didn't make Capt when he
> thought he should. I've read articles that stated that during WWII the
> Chief Chaplain of a US Army division held the rank of Col. I also read
> that each denomination had their own hierarchy wrt religious affairs.
> In the US Military there used to be a separate 'religious authority'
> established by the Vatican to encompass US Catholic military chaplains
> but, sometime after the '70's, they were placed under one of the east
> coast ArchDioceses.
Then you have the case of Jeff Struecker...he was a sergeant in the
Rangers during Mogadishu and then after he left the service went to
seminary and returned and is now a Major. The difference is that Sgt.
Struecker had command authority and Major Streucker doesn't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Struecker
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