Military Is Tossing ‘New Age Notions’ and Will Make Chaplain Corps ‘Great Again,’ Hegseth Announces |
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has pledged to toss “New Age notions” in America’s Chaplain Corps and make the military body “great again.”
“In recent decades, its role has been degraded in an atmosphere of political correctness and secular humanism,” Hegseth said of the Chaplain Corps in a video message released Tuesday night.
“Chaplains have been minimized, viewed by many as therapists instead of ministers,” Hegseth said, adding, “Faith and virtue were traded for self-help and self-care.”
Across all branches of the U.S. military, there are estimated to be 3,000 to 4,000 military chaplains.
The Chaplain Corps was established in 1775 at the request of