Saturday, December 10, 2005

South Dakota National Guard gets full-time chaplain

The Black Hills Pioneer, Newspapers, South Dakota, SDFrom AP:

///start quote///Maj. Lynn Wilson, who started his job last month as the South Dakota Guard's first full-time chaplain, was deployed in Iraq from December 2003 to February 2005 as part of the 147th Field Artillery's 2nd Battalion.

''Our duty was to provide security for transportation along the road and destroy enemy ammunition,'' Wilson said. ''It was amazing to see the sheer arsenals of weapons. Saddam Hussein was so paranoid about his neighbors that he accumulated enough arsenal for three lifetimes.''

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The hiring of full-time chaplains is a trend, Wilson said. ''With so many Guard deployments, there is a need for someone full time,'' he said. ''A lot of states are doing it now.''

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