ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 24, 2010 - A Texas National Guard officer will become the Army National Guard's first Muslim chaplain in December. Army 1st Lt. Rafael Lantigua, an ecclesiastically endorsed ...

ARLINGTON, Va. -Chaplains in the Army National Guard have been providing spiritual guidance and counseling to Soldiers since before the birth of the country, either at home or abroad.

The Army National Guard has 310 chaplain vacancies. That is 40 percent of its authorized level, but so far the Guard has not been forced to deploy units without a chaplain, Dolinger said.

In a Facebook post, a chaplain and lieutenant in the Ohio Army National Guard called a letter from the Joint Chiefs of Staff “seditious.”. Now the soldier may face scrutiny himself from the ...

Military chaplains are assigned to units, ... At present, the Kansas Army National Guard has only six of 15 chaplain slots filled, meaning there is a 60 percent vacancy rate.

The Oregon Army National Guard Chaplain Corps inducted its first Jewish Rabbi Chaplain, Rabbi Menachem M. Orenstein, during a commissioning ceremony at the 41st Armed Forces Reserve Center in ...

DES MOINES, Iowa - Some Army National Guard units may have to deploy overseas without a chaplain if recruitment incentives, including $10,000 signing bonuses, don’t work to fill hundreds of ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Some Army National Guard units may have to deploy overseas without a chaplain if recruitment incentives, including $10,000 signing bonuses, don't work to fill hundreds ...

CHEYENNE — Chaplain (Col.) George “Skip” Perry, of Wheatland, retired from the Wyoming Army National Guard on Sept. 18, 2011, after more than 28 years of dedicated service.

The chaplain of Gov. Tim Walz's field artillery regiment said there is no excuse for the Democratic VP pick to have abandoned his National Guard unit before a critical deployment.

The Oregon Army National Guard made history last week with the commissioning of its first Jewish chaplain, Rabbi Menachem M. Orenstein. The Aug. 18 ceremony took place at the 41st ...

Five of the 10 slots for military chaplains in the South Dakota Army National Guard are empty right now, and that has Col. Joseph Holzhauser on a mission of recruitment.