{"id":1968,"date":"2013-08-27T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2013-08-27T11:46:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T16:46:00","slug":"ssp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2013\/08\/27\/ssp\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Dumbo Drops In The Yard"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-988\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/01\/20130124-113529.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-988\" alt=\"20130124-113529.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/01\/20130124-113529-300x282.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/01\/20130124-113529-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/01\/20130124-113529.jpg 492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The glasses are real, but the M-16 is not.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been particularly gifted at being a soldier (as you can clearly see from the photo) but I&#8217;ve always worked with them, around them, and for them. Last night, on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/sgt-skeptic-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sgt. Skeptic Podcast<\/a>, I had the rare opportunity to speak with servicemembers from three branches\u00a0of the American Armed Forces, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rockbeyondbelief\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Loebe<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/old.richarddawkins.net\/articles\/548643-where-did-god-go-in-afghanistan-an-atheist-writes\" target=\"_blank\">Kathleen Johnson<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atheists.org\/activism\/military\">American Atheists<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102423999449763233983\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Holdenried<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtheistAirman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Atheist Airman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Here is the link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/sgt-skeptic-podcast\/2013\/08\/27\/operation-dumbo\">last night&#8217;s episode<\/a>, please go have a listen. We had a great time and (if I remember correctly) we covered a few serious issues as well. Here is the regulation I was talking about respecting the requirements to certify military chaplaincy: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/whs\/directives\/corres\/pdf\/130428p.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">DoD 1304.28<\/a>. After looking through it again early this morning, I see no reason why the UU&#8217;s and Ethical Culture folks cannot charge ahead and become fully authorized to endorse humanist &#8220;religious ministry professionals&#8221; serving under their authority, even though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/07\/25\/humanist-military-chaplain-_n_3651125.html\">this\u00a0bigoted amendment<\/a> has already passed. Somebody please inform James Croft.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never been particularly gifted at being a soldier (as you can clearly see from the photo) but I&#8217;ve always&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-podcasts","category-movement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}