Again about the contempt of American high command for their enlisted men

My post on "Soldiers and Suicides", a week or two ago, got some considerable response, including one terrible story I am not at liberty to repeat. It seems to have struck a nerve. Now here is another instance of how the ordinary soldier is simply being treated as raw material for the ideological obsessions of men who should never have been let into military academies, let alone given responsible command. The military chaplain played an important role in the US Armed Forces practically since their inception, and many of them became legendary. Now the leadership has decided that their role is too important:
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