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CNN: McConnell will move to acquit Trump if he's impeached, not merely dismiss charges, 2 Republican senators say

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to hold a final vote to acquit President Donald Trump, should he be impeached, when a majority of senators believe his trial has run its course instead of holding a vote on dismissing the articles of impeachment, two Republican senators told CNN on Wednesday.

Republicans want to have a vote on acquittal -- to clear the President of the charges against him -- not simply rely on a 51-vote threshold procedural motion to dismiss the hotly disputed case.

The Constitution mandates 67 votes are required to convict the President and remove him from office, a barrier widely considered too high to be reached in this case.

http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/

Withdrawls on different levels can have a deleterious impact.

ABSTRACT

"Does withdrawing forward-deployed U.S. troops increase instability? This question is at the heart of current grand strategy debates, yet endogeneity issues make this very difficult to answer. Put simply, stability may cause the United States to withdraw forces and lead one to incorrectly infer that withdrawals do not lead to greater instability. We suggest a research design to help alleviate this endogeneity problem. By utilizing exogenous crises that cause U.S. troops to "redeploy" out of South Korea, we are able to estimate the causal effect of a withdrawal of U.S. troops on the probability of instability. We examine several exogenous crises after the end of the Korean War that force U.S. policymakers to rapidly redeploy U.S. forces out of South Korea. We then examine the rate of conflict between South Korea and North Korea, and the United States and North Korea. We find that U.S. troop withdrawals do not cause greater conflict but withdrawals are at times associated with other behaviors, such as conventional arming, nuclear proliferation, and diplomatic initiatives that could affect the future likelihood of war."

https://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/922/docs/Do_U.S_Troop_Withdrawls_Cause_Instability.pdf

6 military veterans who graduated from USC Dornsife

SC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences is proud to have many accomplished alumni veterans. From setting important military firsts to using their service experiences to develop technologies aimed at healing wounds, the Trojan Family of veterans has achieved many milestones in service and research.

https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/3106/military-veteran-alumni-ofusc-dornsife/

The FACE of the CHAPLAINCY has changed significantly over the past 20 years.

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We are a community of interfaith and inter-spiritual chaplains, ministers, spiritual directors, and leaders who are united and inspired by an urgency to prioritize the reciprocal relationship with earth and each other.

If you, too, seek to make a difference in your lifetime—–as a spiritual care provider for hospice, hospitals, crisis situations, prisons, environment, education, corporations, military, and in so many more innovative ways only now just unfolding––The Chaplaincy Institute seminary can provide the education you seek. Our CHI Community is the recognized ordaining body that provides us with ongoing certification, connection, and unlimited opportunities for co-creative collaboration toward realizing our vision of a “just world that honors the sacred connection of all.”

The Navy Band Sea Chanters is the United States Navy’s official chorus

Sea Chanters

The Navy Band Sea Chanters is the United States Navy’s official chorus. The ensemble performs a variety of music ranging from traditional choral music, including sea chanteys and patriotic fare, to opera, Broadway, and contemporary music. Under the leadership of Senior Chief Musician Adam Tyler, the Sea Chanters perform for the public throughout the United States. At home in Washington, they perform for the president, vice president and numerous congressional, military and foreign dignitaries. In 1956, Lt. Harold Fultz, then the band’s assistant leader, organized a group from the Navy School of Music to sing chanteys and patriotic songs for the State of the Nation dinner. An immediate success, Adm. Arleigh Burke, then chief of naval operations, transferred them to the Navy Band, named them the Sea Chanters and tasked this all-male chorus with perpetuating the songs of the sea. In 1980, the group added women to their ranks and expanded their repertoire to include everything from Brahms to Broadway.

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National Day of Prayer Breakfast aboard MCLB Barstow

MARINE CORPS LOGISTICS BASE BARSTOW, CA, UNITED STATES

05.09.2019

Story by Keith Hayes 

Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow  

Barstow-area dignitaries joined men and women of faith at a breakfast celebrating the National Day of Prayer aboard Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, California, May 2.

The Prayer Breakfast, held at the Route 66 Café aboard the base, was opened by U.S. Navy LT Chad Laughery, chaplain, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, with a prayer of grace for the food served at the event and to begin the round of guests leading prayers.

“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire,” Laughery asked, quoting from Holocaust author Corrie ten Boom’s writings. Prayer should lead your life, he explained, not be a last resort to fix things.

Pastor Bushwan Carpenter, Total Restoration Church, Barstow, during a prayer for the United States, praised God for “causing a little infant nation composed of all different people and groups to come together under one flag.”

“Thank you for all of our leaders present at this gathering this morning,” Dr. Wilbert Artis, operations officer, Marine Corps Community Services, prayed. “Meet with them, guide them and cover them as they make important decisions that will affect all the members of our nation, our organization and our community.”

“We commend to your gracious care and keeping all of the men and women of the Armed Forces at home and abroad,” prayed Juan Rivera, S-6 communications director, MCLBB. “Grant them your heavenly grace day to day, strengthen them through trials and tribulations, give them courage to face the perils that beset them, and grant them a sense of your abiding presence, wherever they may be.”

Special guest, City of Barstow Mayor Julie Hackbarth-McIntyre, spoke at the event, remembering how playing gospel hymns on the piano during the funeral service for her father and prayer helped her get through the day and eventually helped her cope with his passing.

”The Earth shall soon dissolve like snow, the sun forebear to shine, but God, who called me here below shall be ever mine, ” Hackbarth-McIntyre concluded her remarks with a verse from the hymn “Amazing Grace.”

The National Day of Prayer was officially signed into law in 1952 by order of President Harry Truman, and requires the current president to sign a proclamation urging all Americans to pray on this day each year. The date is always the first Thursday in May, according to the National Day of Prayer organization Website.

https://www.dvidshub.net/news/322262/national-day-prayer-breakfast-aboard-mclb-barstow

Pathway to Liberty: The Forefathers Monument

Liberty requires Faith, Morality, the Rule of Law, Mercy, and Education and can only be obtained and sustained through the Gospel; resulting in self-government under the headship of Jesus Christ. An excerpt from the Kirk Cameron movie 'Monumental', showcasing The Forefathers Monument with Marshall Foster. An inscription upon the monument states, "National Monument to the Forefathers. Erected by a grateful people in remembrance of their labors, sacrifices and sufferings for the cause of civil and religious liberty."   ::  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO4nCd20FDQ&feature=youtu.be

9 Things You Should Know About Military Chaplains

Veterans Day is the official holiday in the United States that honors people who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. Here are nine things you should know about an oft-overlooked group of veterans—military chaplains.


1. Chaplains have the rank of a military commissioned officer and serve the dual roles of religious leader and staff officer, but do not possess the duties or responsibilities of command. Article 24 of the Geneva Convention identifies chaplains as protected personnel in their function and capacity as ministers of religion. Service regulations further prohibit chaplains from bearing arms and classify chaplains as noncombatants.

Read More:  https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/9-things-you-should-know-about-military-chaplains/

The Remembrance of the Savior's Birth - Emmanuel, God with us ... all the earth and it's people on it!

A Special "Thank you" to the . . . Over A Thousand People Came Together To Break a Record And Bring This Moving Christmas Hymn To Life. The Piano Guys, Peter Hollens, David Archuleta, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir get together to sing "Angels We Have Heard On High."

Merry Christmas to all Military members far and near. 2017

Chaplains have a War ongoing with the Growing Humanist Culture in the Military

Activists Humanists in the Military are causing problems limiting the ability and/or effective to be able to ministry to military personnel.

According to MAAF figures, more than 22 percent of service personnel identify as “no religious preference,” and slightly more than 1 percent identify as “atheist” or “agnostic.” In 2010, the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute estimated humanists make up 3.6 percent of the U.S. military.

The new policy has its detractors. Writing for Reporter, the official newspaper of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, Roger Drinnon said a “heavily secularized military culture, stemming from ongoing atheist activism and LGBT advocacy,” has led to “an environment where restrictions and even punitive actions reportedly are being imposed on chaplains, commanders and lower ranks who seek to serve without compromising their religious faith.”

Humanism was recognized by the Army in 2014, but this new order expands that to all branches of the military.

1.    http://religionnews.com/2017/04/21/defense-department-expands-its-list-of-recognized-religions/


2.    http://awakeamericaonline.org/pray-for-our-leaders.html

HOW TO PRAY FOR THE DEPLOYED

How you can PRAY for deployed military personnel?

We hear people say, "Pray for our Troops!" But what do we pray for? What, specifically, are their needs?

Here are insights provided by Army Chaplain (MAJ) Scott Koeman in how to pray:

• Pray that he would have the peace of Christ with him—especially if he travels outside of his Forward Operating Base (FOB).

• Pray that he will depend on the love of God to keep him from bitterness at others (who needlessly make life difficult on their subordinates especially when they aren’t the most competent leader).

• Pray for his spiritual and emotional resiliency so that regardless of what he faces, he will be able to be effective in his military role and responsibility.

• Pray for protection. “As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people both now and forevermore” (Psalm I25:2).

• Pray that he will be vigilant if he is called upon to fire upon the enemy. “Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle” (Psalm 144:1).

• Pray that the enemy will be turned back. “May all who seek to take my life be put to shame and confusion: may all who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace” (Psalm 40:14).

• Pray that he will be fulfilled in his job. Without purpose, time in the combat zone is extremely long and difficult.

• Pray that he will resist lowering himself to lower levels of conversations and instead seek to be an example of goodness and righteousness.

• Pray that he finds “good and solid” Christian brothers to have fellowship.

• Pray that if he struggles or is discouraged, he will seek out his chaplain for wisdom and encouragement.

• Pray for the leadership in Platoons, Companies, Battalions, Brigades . . . depending on what level the soldier works. Leadership can make or break a man.
  
  http://www.operationwearehere.com/CaringInsightsMilitaryPersonnelPrayer.html

HOW TO PRAY FOR MILITARY and THEIR FAMILIES

How to Pray for Our Military & Their Families

by Ron Harvell on Friday, May 20, 2016 at 10:33 AM

An Air Force chaplain with 30 years of experience gives practical advice on how to best pray for our military and their families.

Any day is a good day to honor those who have died fighting for America’s freedoms. And one of the best ways to honor them is to pray for the heroes who now serve to protect those freedoms. 

My wife, Marsha, and I have served as North American missionaries for 30 years in the U.S. Air Force chaplaincy. We love the military community. We have journeyed with them on 5 continents, 16 assignments and multiple deployments. We’ve lived overseas for 11 years; 4 of those years were served in the Middle East and Africa. We returned last year after serving 2 years in the Middle East together, living in a local community where we were responsible for ministering to all 20,000 airmen who worked in the Middle East, fighting the Taliban, Al Qaeda and ISIS.

I'm always delighted to get the question, “How can I pray for the military?” Because I believe there are three specific ways that we can all support them in prayer.
READ MORE:  http://www.lifeway.com/Article/how-to-pray-for-our-military-and-their-families

What is Discipleship? How Can We Change the World?

The Vocation of a Solider

"The great French preacher Lacordaire once said the vocation of a solider is next in dignity to the priesthood, not only because it commissioned him to defend justice on the field of battle and order of the field of peace, but also because it called him to the spirit and intention of sacrifice."   ~ Bishop Fulton Sheen, Wartime Prayer Book, p.15