Military chaplain
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A military chaplain ministers to military personnel and, in most cases, their families and civilians working for the military. In some cases, they will also work with local civilians within a military
A Catholic chaplain celebrating mass in an Austrian military hospital in 1916
An Orthodox priest administers Holy Communion to a wounded Russian soldier during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905
Anglican Archbishop Riley addressing a crowd as 'Chaplain-General to the AIF'
Fr. Thomas Mooney, a Catholic chaplain of the 69th Infantry Regiment of the New York State Militia, at a mass with fellow soldiers at Fort Corcoran, Arlington Heights, Virginia, 1861
Religious symbolism in the United States military includes the use of religious symbols for military chaplain insignia, uniforms, emblems, flags, and chapels; symbolic gestures, actions, and words use
Insignia for Christian, Muslim, and Jewish chaplains (left to right) are shown on the uniforms of three U.S. Navy chaplains, 1998. These were the only insignia in use at that time.
The "Shepherd's Crook," the original insignia authorized for U.S. Army chaplains, 1880–1888, and still included as part of the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps regimental insignia
Early army chaplain uniforms used the color black as a symbol of a ministerial presence, before corps insignia had been instituted
WWI Army uniform coat with Christian Chaplain insignia