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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 ...

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 ...

The Navy chaplains were getting toughening-up training, too. At Virginia’s College of William & Mary (Williamsburg) they hiked, worked in the gymnasium between classes. At the course’s climax they ...

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 ...