Tag Archive: Air Force

Dec 20 2011

Air Force’s Nativity Scene is now joined by the Flying Spaghetti Monster

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This sign was finally put up by the atheists at Travis Air Force Base, donated by American Atheists. Click to embiggen Staff Sergeant Dan Rawlings is brave enough to do this without anonymity. The fight has not been easy. This ‘win’ is still bittersweet, as the atheists responsible are still banned from meeting on post. …

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Dec 18 2011

Air Force censors the atheist holiday display

Travis AFB atheists havesafeholiday CENSORED

Air Force officials have at Travis AFB are at it again, but probably not in the way you’d expect. Take a look. This sign was at first banned by the chaplaincy. Then the media and legal attention made them reverse their decision a few days later. Now they want the (already printed) sign to be …

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Dec 15 2011

Air Force personnel posing with casket, occupant with noose around neck

Air force casket photo

A jarring picture has surfaced after being mailed to reporters at Military Times. This is extremely offensive to many of the families of fallen soldiers here at Fort Bragg, NC. A Non-Commissioned Officer, and friend of mine told me about this story. He described the situation, and both of us just thought “What the hell were …

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Dec 14 2011

Atheists donated way too many care packages to deployed troops

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Earlier this week, I highlighted an incredibly easy way to send a care package to a deployed military member, completely free of charge. It was a combined effort between Revision Military, who makes SawFly battle-ready eye wear among other things, and also the AnySoldier charity who helps match military members with individual donors. This started …

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Nov 16 2011

Air Force offers classes in psychic skills, homeopathy, angel healing

The Air Force has just announced its support of what has to be a diploma mill. I’m all for the DoD spending money on useful education opportunities for service members. I’m glad that there is serious talk of an incentive to hire veterans. But this is just one more thing that should really be stopped …

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Nov 08 2011

Air Force atheist makes a new friend at the dog tag machine

Air Force Atheist dog tags, Dan Rawlings

My friend over in the Air Force, Daniel Rawlings, is an ex-Mormon and out of the closet atheist. He drove hours to make it to many of our awesome MASH Fort Bragg meetings. He has now been reassigned much further away to Travis Air Force Base, in California. Such is the transient nature of military …

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Jan 22 2011

US Military Defines Spirituality…?

You might have guessed that 99.9% of references are explicitly religious. Good guess! There seems to be a sudden rush to walk this back in the light of all the exposure the Army’s mandatory Spiritual Fitness testing is getting. The mental gymnastics required to divorce their concept of Spiritual Fitness from Religion illustrate exactly why …

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