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I tell you Hegseth is reshaping the military into a "Christian" army!

Hegseth says military chaplains will no longer display rank

BrieAnna J. Frank

USA TODAY

March 24, 2026

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced two major changes to the military's chaplaincy corps on March 24, one of which will mean chaplains will no longer wear their rank insignia.

They will instead display their religious insignia while retaining their rank as officers. They "will be seen among the highest ranks because of their divine calling," Hegseth said in a video posted to X.

The change reflects Hegseth's wider effort to infuse the chaplaincy, and the military more broadly, with more explicitly religious sentiments.

WTF! "will be seen among the highest ranks because of their divine calling,"!!!!

A smaller, more streamlined system will support chaplains in "minister(ing) to service members in a way that aligns with that service member’s faith background and religious practice," said Hegseth, adding that the Pentagon is "not even close to being done" in taking steps toward "restoring the esteemed position of chaplain."

Stars and Stripes writes,

Since 2017, the Defense Department has recognized 221 groups as religious denominations or belief systems, ranging from mainstream to obscure Christian sects, Wiccans and atheists. That system was impractical and unusual, Hegseth said this week. Moving forward, the Pentagon will use 31 religious affiliation codes. “This brings the codes in line with its original purpose: giving chaplains clear, usable information, so they can minister to service members in a way that aligns with that service member’s faith background and religious practice,” he said.

Will only conservative religions will be covered? That liberal religions will be pushed aside?

 

So does that mean... a gay or lesbian servicemember comes it that they will try to make them straight? Or want about a woman who is having an abortion what will the chaplain more "explicitly religious sentiments" try to talk her out of having an abortion?

Meanwhile...

Pete Hegseth’s Christian rhetoric draws renewed scrutiny after the U.S. goes to war with Iran

Los Angles Times

By Tiffany Stanley

March 20, 2026

• Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has brought conservative Christian values into Pentagon operations, from monthly worship services to plans reshaping the military chaplain corps.
• As the U.S. enters war with Iran, critics warn Hegseth’s religious rhetoric risks inflaming tensions and compromising the military’s secular, pluralistic mission.
• Unverified allegations that military commanders invoked biblical prophecies to troops have drawn congressional attention, though watchdog groups haven’t independently confirmed complaints.

 Since becoming Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth has found no shortage of ways to bring his strand of conservative evangelicalism into the Pentagon.

He hosts monthly Christian worship services for employees. His department’s promotional videos have displayed Bible verses alongside military footage. In speeches and interviews, he often argues the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation and troops should embrace God, potentially risking the military’s secular mission and hard-won pluralism.

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Hegseth has a history of defending the Crusades, the brutal medieval wars that pitted Christians against Muslims. In his 2020 book “American Crusade,” he wrote that those who enjoy Western civilization should “thank a crusader.” Two of his tattoos draw from crusader imagery: the Jerusalem Cross and the phrase “Deus Vult,” or “God wills it,” which Hegseth has called “the rallying cry of Christian knights as they marched to Jerusalem.”

I am afraid of him! I am afraid he is creating a military who doesn't answer to the Constitution but to the Bible!