{"id":10064,"date":"2011-04-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/04\/16\/hindu-chaplain-programs-in-us-department-of-defense\/"},"modified":"2011-04-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T12:00:00","slug":"hindu-chaplain-programs-in-us-department-of-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/04\/16\/hindu-chaplain-programs-in-us-department-of-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Chaplain Programs In US Department of Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release<\/p>\n<p>UNITED STATES, April 2011, (by Lt. Col. Ravi Chaudhary): The tremendous growth of South Asians in the Department of Defense has brought about the need build the first Dharmic\/Hindu Military Chaplain Programs in DoD. I have been working with a team of action officers here in the Pentagon to make this diversity program a reality. The Office of the Secretary of Defense has officially approved the first Hindu Chaplain endorsing agency, and we are now looking for recruits, as well as follow-on programs for more Indic faith participation. See this testimonial for some background <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/ravi-chaudhary\/for-indian-americans-hono_b_782497.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The goal of our team is simple: to meet the spiritual needs of military members and families who are sacrificing so much for our nation. We have received several notes and testimonials from military members, and I&#8217;m told the President was recently briefed on this endeavor by White House staff; so momentum is building! As we continue to move forward, I would like to reach out to you for your support, awareness, and involvement. We need to recruit candidates to serve as the first Dharmic military chaplains! <\/p>\n<p>Contact:<\/p>\n<p><b>Army<\/b><br \/>http:\/\/www.chaplain.goarmy.com <br \/>POC is Chaplain Manning (502) 626-4014 <br \/>Sgt Cantu (502)-626-1082 <\/p>\n<p><b>Navy<\/b><br \/>http:\/\/www.chaplain.navy.mil <br \/>CAPT Henry Nixon <\/p>\n<p><b>Air Force<\/b><br \/>http:\/\/www.usafhc.af.mil <br \/>POC is Chaplain Giannone <br \/>1-800-803-2452. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release UNITED STATES, April 2011, (by Lt. Col. Ravi Chaudhary): The tremendous growth of South Asians in the Department,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}