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Most chaplains learn early that the work is quiet, and often lonely. You sit with a family in the worst hour of their lives. You stand in a hallway after a line-of-duty death. You carry stories no one else in the room can carry. Then you go home and hold it alone. The lone-chaplain model asks one pe...
Military chaplaincy does not happen in a single moment. It runs on a cycle. Long before the plane leaves and long after it returns, service members and their families move through a predictable arc: the buildup before deployment, the separation, the reunion, and the slow work of reintegration. A cha...
