Chaplain (LtCdr) Laura Bender, Chaplain of the USS New York, displays the religious symbols made from World Trade Center steel that will be used in the ship's chapel. See the ChristianFighterPilot.com blog entitled "USS New York, and its Chapel, Commissioned." (United Methodist Photo by Linda Bloom.)

5/13/2008 - Air Force Chaplain (Capt.) Jeffrey Granger hands out Girl Scout cookies to Soldiers about to embark on a convoy. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)

1/20/2008 - Lt. Col. Steve West preaches about rejection and how to overcome it. Each week Chaplain West offers sermons touching on issues affecting deployed servicemembers. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)

Chaplain (Capt.) Paul Amaliri offers a prayer for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles as Security Forces Airmen look on during a naming ceremony Sept. 18, 2009. Chaplain Amaliri blessed the MRAPs at the start of the ceremony. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Christopher Hubenthal

March 22, 2003 - Chaplain observes the launch of an F-14 Tomcat from the flight deck of USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) while deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. (US Navy photo by: Photographer's Mate Airman Ryan O'Connor.)

Sept. 11, 2006 -- Command Chaplain Cmdr. Curtis D. Schmidtlein leads Prospective Chief Petty Officers (PCPOs) and audience members in prayer during a 9/11 memorial ceremony in Japan. U.S. Navy photo by MC2 Matthew Schwarz.

Chaplain (Maj.) Wendell Rome prays with an Airman in Iraq. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Erik Gudmundson)

Chaplain (Capt.) Hyral Walker, 11th Wing Chaplain, delivers an invocation during the annua National Prayer Breakfast. The breakfast featured readings from the Torah, Koran and Bible, drew more than 150 people. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Tim Chacon)

New Chapel at COB Basra in Iraq. Over a year, eight religious support teams have provided one hundred services per week, serving an average of 2,000 service members each week. (U.S. Army Photo by Spc. J. Princeville Lawrence)

Jewish Chaplain (Maj) Carlos Huerta talks with Muslim imam Dawud Salahuddin Bin Pearson before the start of the National Prayer Breakfast. (US Army Photo)

Dr. Johnson George, guest speaker at the Chapel 1 dedication ceremony, addresses the attendees. George, the director of the Good News Ministry in India, was a seminary classmate of Fort McCoy Garrison Chaplain (Col.) Ken Lawson and is a long-time friend.

Chaplain Mike Swartz performs a communion service at an outpost overlooking the Tangi Valley in Afghanistan Febuary 20, 2010.

Chaplain (Capt.) Andrew Shriver demonstrates the Islamic section of the miniature portable chapel, July 2011. Uncredited photo.

A Fort Hood youth group designed the statue that now graces the Chaplains' memorial at Fort Jackson, SC. Article by Rachel Parks.