United States Army Chaplaincy: A Model for Interfaith Work
by Peter Anthony Baktis
I entered the United States Chaplaincy in the summer of 1990, a time that I thought was relatively peaceful and stable. It had been almost one year since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and one year before the demise of the Soviet Union. Little did I know that my next twenty-five years of service would begin with the invasion of Kuwait and end with the Iraqi war. Twenty-five years of an army at war in places that most Americans did not even know, such as Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, to name a few…