And I will humor you...Observe...
Oh, he most certainly does answer to the Pentagon. Who writes his cheque? Certainly not God.
The analogy that a chaplain is the same as the political officer is so absurd in its face that one does not need to spend a single day in the military to see the stupidity in the analogy.
The political officer is imposed by the government, whereas the chaplain is requested by the troops themselves.
The jurisdiction of the political officer is over everyone, whereas the chaplain's jurisdiction is only over religious issues as requested by the individual, in other words, if a person does not come to the chaplain, there is nothing the chaplain can do about it. In fact, many soldiers, airmen, sailors, and Marines seek civilian religious counseling instead of going to the military chaplains.
The political officer is, and must be, intimately involved with the daily operations of the unit, he may or may not be combat rated, whereas the chaplain, not only is he
NOT a line officer, he is not allowed to bear arms according to the Geneva Convention.
Your argument indicates you have little knowledge, let alone understanding of what is the role of a chaplain in the military.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015...ialed-for-refusing-to-remove-bible-verse.html
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The Christian Marine was given a bad conduct discharge and a reduction in rank from lance corporal to private."
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The plight of Lance Corporal Monifa Sterling seems unbelievable – a member of the Armed Forces criminally prosecuted for displaying a slightly altered passage of Scripture from the Old Testament: “No weapon formed against me shall prosper.”
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If the government can order a Marine not to display a Bible verse, they could try and order her not to get a religious tattoo, or go to church on Sunday,” said Liberty Institute attorney Michael Berry. “Restricting a Marine’s free exercise of religion is blatantly unconstitutional.”
US Marine Monifa Sterling found out the hard way that she will ultimately have to answer to her government, not her Chaplain, and certainly not God for the sin of displaying a biblical verse. What, are you like China
, monitoring the
ideological bent of your troops? What happened to your constitutional freedoms?
Har...That is funny.
I have stated before that the PDF Chinese is not a very smart bunch, and
YOU further reinforced that.
Sterling's punishment came from violation of the policy of banning of displaying religious artifacts, in other words, she chose her religious feelings over secular laws. The Marine Corps did not punish her for her religious beliefs. The policy was that no religious artifacts, including verses, are to be prominently displayed. She can be a Republican or Democrat or Libertarian or even Communist and the Corps can do nothing about it.
Now, let's not pull the wool over the good people here. Let's take a look at when this article was published.
It was published on Tuesday, December 15, 1998 Published at 15:17 GMT, around 18 years ago. Does that look like a "few months" to you? The PLA has fully divested its commercial businesses more than decade ago. You still haven't shown anyone here an inkling of evidence to the contrary.
The PLA was ordered to divest its business interests five months
FROM THE TIME THE ORDER WAS GIVEN IN 1998.
Here is the relevant paragraph...
Last July President Jiang Zemin ordered the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and armed police forces to give up their commercial interests in 20,000 companies by 15 December 1998.
See the highlighted ? Essentially, Zemin said: Get it done by Dec 1998.
You have a reading comprehension problem.
That's funny Gambit, you kept talking about China, you almost made me believe the United States military was all spit and shine.
I never said the US military is perfect. But what you posted is nothing more than isolated criminality, whereas the corruption in your PLA is systematic and endemic.
This is just a minor case, peanuts compared to the monumental corruption and waste in the DoD that has led to trillions of $ down the drain with pork barrel projects like the LCS. The US military is saddled with influence peddling and corruption at the very top. The board of directors of Theranos was filled with ex-military brass like Mattis, lobbying for the biggest medical scam of the decade. He is now in the running for SecDef under the new administration.
If you have to go this route, then your PLA is a hundred times worse considering what is exposed is only the tip of the PLA iceberg.
This is important, and has to be said. Nobody gives a shit about the time you did in the US military. Your point had better stand on its own, without hoping for your credentials to do the heavy lifting.
This is a military oriented forum, therefore, what I was matters. You PDF Chinese never gave a shit about experience, we know that. Arrogance seems to be genetic.
When questioned on your confused bullshit, you have been evasive. You claimed all the J-20 program had were flying prototypes, I corrected you and stated it is in serial production.
When the F-22 entered serial production, it was for line squadrons, pal. Pilots were already trained and wings were waiting for their jets. You can quibble all you want on whether the J-20 is in 'serial production' or not but as far as comparing to the F-22 and F-35, what you have are prototypes. Maybe just a wee bit over the line.
You cherry picked cases of individual corruption, and generalized it to the whole Chinese military. I cherry picked some egregious cases from the US to demonstrate how foolish that is.
Nobody but the PDF Chinese would believe what you did was credible. The PLA's corruption is so bad that even your own leadership acknowledged it. How else can you explain the current drive by the Chinese government to reform the PLA ?
Do not ever presume that you are superior to everyone here when you don't have the facts.
Take your own advice.