Lt. j.g. Stacie Powell, a 49-year-old wife, mother and grandmother, is the first female active-duty Navy chaplain endorsed by ...

NORFOLK, Va. — In an all-out push to meet the mental health needs of sailors, the Navy is embedding chaplains as a permanent part of guided-missile destroyer crews. While the U.S. Navy Chaplain Corps ...

(The Center Square) – Secretary of War Pete Hegseth issued a new directive to revamp the U.S. military Chaplain Corps. The new directive was issued one week after a Department of Justice Religious ...

WASHINGTON — The Navy is poised to meet its goal of having a chaplain serving aboard each of its destroyers by 2025, culminating a yearslong effort to have dedicated emotional and spiritual counselors ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — If there are not enough chaplains to go around in a future mass casualty event, the Navy is now reaching out to civilian clergy to provide a helping hand. The U.S. Fleet Forces ...

Navy Chaplain Lt. Cmdr. Ben Garrett performs the sacrament of the Eucharist in the chapel of the USS Bataan on Wednesday, March 15, 2023 at Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia. (John C. Clark/AP) In ...