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The Vital Role of Chaplains in Military Operations: Expertise in Health and Support

Explore how chaplains serve as moral, ethical, and spiritual advisors in military settings, providing care and guidance to service members. Discover their crucial role in addressing the impact of traumatic experiences and promoting spiritual readiness. Learn about collaboration between Navy Medicine and Chaplain Corps to enhance spiritual care for PTSD/TBI patients.

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The Vital Role of Chaplains in Military Operations: Expertise in Health and Support

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  1. The Role of the Chaplains in OSC

  2. ADM Mike MullenChairman, Joint Chiefs of StaffTotal Force Health for the 21st Century9 Dec 2009 remarks at USUHS ….”I’ve actually been dealing with chaplains for a long time. And I’m talking my own service here more than anything else. I don’t think there’s-as a group, in total, nobody knows more about my force than the chaplains-the problems, the breadth, the depth, the you-name-it.” ….”the group that I think know more than anybody else about what’s really going on.”

  3. Chaplain Role & Function in Operational Setting • Principal moral, ethical, and spiritual advisor to the Commanding Officer—measure of standing and trust • Organic resource to facilitate, provide, care and advise for Sailors—by-stander in combat • Key player to help warriors unpack the moral, ethical, spiritual and emotional impact of traumatic experiences—a sounding board • Lead agent to reframe “life and death” experiences; the recognition of a spiritual dimension—gives purpose and meaning to traumatic events; inspires hope and promotes spiritual readiness

  4. Collaboration between Navy Medicine Wounded, Ill and Injured (WII) and Pastoral Care to provide chaplains with best practices for spiritual care of PTSD/TBI population. • Handbook written to collect resources being used by pastoral care providers. • Navy Medicine chaplains trained in August and September 2010 on the handbook. • Navy Medicine and Chaplain Corps provided joint professional development training in FY08 and FY09 on COSC for Caregivers and COSC-The Family Dynamic. Handbook provides specific resources for pastoral caregivers.

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