US EditionHegseth Overhauling Chaplain Corps, Targeting ‘New Age’ Concepts
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth aims to restore military chaplains as spiritual leaders by scrapping secular guides and streamlining faith codes, citing 82% of service members identify as religious.
- Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said he would restore the role of the Chaplain Corps, which he said was degraded in an atmosphere of political correctness and secular humanism.
- Hegseth cited the current Army Spiritual Fitness Guide as evidence of the military's growing disconnect from the divine and said he will sign a directive immediately eliminating its use.
- Hegseth said other new changes include simplifying the faith and belief coding system, which he said has 'ballooned to over two hundred overly complex faith and belief codes.
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New action taken to strengthen US military chaplain corps
(The Center Square) – Secretary of War Pete Hegseth issued a new directive to revamp the U.S. military Chaplain Corps. The new directive was issued one week after a Department of Justice Religious Liberty Commission held a hearing and heard…
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By Virginia Allen, The Daily Signal | December 17, 2025 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has pledged to toss “New Age notions” in America’s Chaplain Corps and make the military body “great again.” “In recent decades, its role has been degraded in an atmosphere of political correctness and secular humanism,” Hegseth said of the Chaplain Corps in a video message released Tuesday night. “Chaplains have been minimized, viewed by many as therapists ins…
Hegseth Vows To Restore Faith To U.S. Military Chaplain Corps, Rejecting ‘Therapist Culture’
by Emmitt Barry, Worthy News Washington D.C. Bureau Chief (Worthy News) – Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced plans Tuesday to overhaul the U.S. military’s Chaplain Corps, arguing the institution has drifted from its original mission and lost the “faith and virtue” that defined it when it was established under George Washington more than 250 years ago. In a statement posted on X, Hegseth criticized what he described as decades of political c…
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