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To the Editors
Nre About Merchant Marine Chaplains. experience which Navy Chaplains derived from active duty The article in the January-February, 1946, issue of THE at sea, with Marines, and at overseas bases. Wide experiY AND NAVY CHAPLAIN by Commodore Telfair ence with service personnel on active duty does give to the night, U.S.M.S., on chaplains in the Merchant Marine clergyman who would serve as a Chaplain at training ives a clear picture of what it means to provide a religious centers agreat advantage. ad spiritual ministry to all men who follow the sea. On 23 March 1946. ne point, however, I feel that, in all fairness to the Navy, R. D. WORKMAN, correction should be made. The Navy did offer to pro- Captain, Ch.C., U. S. Navy, Formerly Chief of Chaplains, USN.
ide Chaplains to minister to the personnel of the Mari- Formerly Chief of Chaplains, USN. ie Service (Merchant Marine), both at training centers or officers and training centers for all other personnel. s a matter of fact, the Navy was under the impression No! You Have Forgotten Your Church Publication. hat arrangements had been made for us to provide the Following your published suggestion in the last issue of haplains needed by the Merchant Marine. The Bureau of THE ARMY AND NAVY CHAPLAIN, I inclose herewith one aval Personnel ordered two (2) Chaplains to the Mer- dollar ($1.00), coin of the realm, for six copies of Ameriant Marine Training Center at Sheepshead Bay, Long can Army Chaplaincy. sland, and one Chaplain to the Officers Training School You did not ask that you be informed of the disposal of t Great Neck, Long Island. the six copies, but here it is: The Navy Chaplain assigned to duty by The Navy De- 1. My prep school library. itent at Great Neck Merchant Marine Officers Train- 2. My college library. g School advised the Bureau of Naval Personnel, im- 3. My divinity school library. ediately after he reported there for duty, that he found a 4. My local city library.
plain (not Navy) already there on duty and that his 5. Headquarters of my college fraternity. presence (the Navy Chaplain's) was questioned. The 6. Could I keep this one? Bureau of Naval Personnel immediately corresponded ith the Commanding Officer at Great Neck and learned With every good wish for the continued high standard he following: the Merchant Marine desired to make its of excellence of THE ARMY AND NAVY CHAPLAIN, I am, wn selection of clergymen who were to serve as chaplains Fraternally,
ith the Merchant Marine and that the Merchant Marine HARRY C. FRASER,
ould like to have all such clergymen, whom the Merchant Arlington, Virginia. arine selected, commissioned as Chaplains in the United States Naval Reserve, with the understanding that all such lergymen selected by the Merchant Marine and commis- We Wish a Majority of Chaplains Had Done This. ioned by the Navy in the Naval Reserve, were to remain I wish to renew my subscription for THE ARMY AND n duty indefinitely where and as the Merchant Marine NAVY CHAPLAIN. During the war I have had this publicaigt decde or direct them to serve.
ht dede or direct them to serve. tion sent to my wife in Iowa, who in turn forwarded it to Since the Navy does not relinquish or surrender its au- me. It has been a very valuable and timely source of inhority or jurisdiction over its officers, the Bureau of Naval formation and inspiration for me, and I certainly wish to Personnel could not enter into any such arrangements with continue to receive it. he Merchant Marine concerning its Chaplains. Because ARTHUR C. MARSTON, of the foregoing indicated policies of both the Merchant Camp Swift, Texas. Marine and the Navy Department, those Chaplains who had been ordered to duty with the Merchant Marine, three Number, two at Sheepshead Bay and one at Great Neck, Kudos From a Sailor. ere detached by the Bureau of Naval Personnel and ordered to other duty. u on Congratulations on the last copy of our magazine. It ere t ote d....  is the best yet!
feel sure the clergymen who served as Chaplains with is the best yet!
 ,P. H..TOMLINSON, USN'R, Merchant Marine rendered excellent service. The only P Dn r,
Possible advantage which might have accrued to the per- Lake Denmark, Dover, N. J. onel of the Merchant Marine, had Navy Chaplains
istered to them, would have been that which derived Send More Ideas! We Welcome Them!
Send More Ideas! We Welcome Them!
t the training which was given to clergymen who ened the Navy, at our Chaplains' Training School and the The magazine is excellent and I am grateful for the news, the ideas, and the inspiration I received from it. ro's NOTE: Subsequent to our last issue we have learned that the EUGENE B. NYMAN,
ShiPping Administration is keeping eight chaplains on duty at train- C a inUSNR. 
chols. Chaplain, U R.
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