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These Marines are stationed at Camp Pendleton. This platoon is in an artillery ground combat unit. Names are withheld. Here is some more information from the source: I didn’t get to ask the two Lieutenants and my other Sgt but I know they are religious. As I stated before there were 7 avowedly open atheists, 1 [...]
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Surprisingly, 39 percent of Marines in this platoon are nonbelievers
April 6th, 2012 
Justin Griffith 
Posted in Atheist 
Tags: Atheist closet, Atheist Marines, Camp Pendleton, Dave Silverman, Marine Corps, USMC 
11 Comments »Military A-Week: How to put ATHEIST on your records (all branches)
March 21st, 2012 Justin Griffith Yesterday I told you why it was IMPORTANT to stand up and be counted as an “ATHEIST” and not a “NO-REL-PREF”. Today, I’m going to tell you how. Army: Walk in to your unit’s S-1 office. Ask them to update your ERB or ORB. Tell them you want to fix your religious preference. Tell them you [...]
Posted in Atheist Tags: A-week, Air Force, Army, Atheist closet, Dogtags, Foxhole Atheists, Marine Corps, Military Atheists, Navy, NO-REL-PREF, Out Campaign 12 Comments »Marine Corps: How to get into heaven no matter how many sins are committed
March 10th, 2012 Justin Griffith David Silverman, President of American Atheists, forwarded this to me. People need to read this. I wish to detail my experiences over the past 10 years of consistent and continual harassment and religious indoctrination thoughout my military career. In June of 2001, I left for recruit training at MCRD San Diego. During recruit training, church [...]
The atheist Marine Corps recruit that fought the NO-REL-PREF and won!
December 16th, 2011 Justin Griffith I needed a bit of good news. I’m sure many of you are of the same mind. Readers may recall a short burst of posts about people being screwed over with NO-REL-PREF on their records at the first stop in their military career. It started with a Marine Corps recruit who was very adamant about [...]
Posted in Atheist Tags: dog tags, Dogtags, Facebook, Justin Griffith, Marine Corps, No religious preference, NO-REL-PREF, reddit, SGT Griffith 10 Comments »Atheists donated way too many care packages to deployed troops
December 14th, 2011 Justin Griffith 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 [...]
Posted in Atheist Tags: Air Force, AnySoldier, Army, Care Package, charity, Kelly Goudy, Marine Corps, Navy, Revision Gives, Revision Military, SawFly 12 Comments »Many more Atheists being forced to accept ‘NO-REL-PREF’
December 12th, 2011 Justin Griffith This morning’s article about a Marine recruit who got NO-REL-PREF against her will got a bit of attention. Much of it was from people who had almost the exact same experience. I’ve seen hundreds of comments to that effect in the few posts I’ve made that dealt with this topic. For instance, shortly after I [...]
Posted in Atheist Tags: Atheist, dog tags, Dogtags, Marine Corps, New Foxhole Atheists, No religious preference, NO-REL-PREF 10 Comments »Another foxhole atheist given “No-Rel-Pref” against her will
December 12th, 2011 Justin Griffith I’ve written previously about my difficulty getting both my dog tags and my Enlisted Records Brief to accurately reflect ‘ATHEIST’. Some of the story is kind of funny and even eventually made it on the Flying Spaghetti Monster website. My corrected dogtags even made it on Wikipedia! NO-REL-PREF makes you a target for proselytism (even [...]
Posted in Atheist Tags: Atheist, dog tags, Dogtags, Marine Corps, MEPS, No religious preference, NO-REL-PREF, Recruiter, Religious Preference 17 Comments »Fox News bears false witness about the Camp Pendleton cross
November 30th, 2011 Justin Griffith The Camp Pendleton cross was simply illegal, and the Marine Corps quickly did the right thing and had it removed requested a legal review. (There is an almost identical story where a cross was indeed removed at Camp Marmal very recently. I wonder how that legal review is going to turn out at Camp Pendleton… [...]
Camp Pendleton cross was *illegal*, predictably Fox News freaked out
November 28th, 2011 Justin Griffith American Atheists Vice President (and former Military Director / my mentor!) Kathleen Johnson handled the situation perfectly. Which is almost certainly why they ended the segment soon after she was given a turn to speak. FACT: Camp Pendleton is not in Afghanistan. Camp Pendleton is near San Diego. All chapels have complied with the concept of neutralizing [...]
Posted in Atheist Tags: American Atheists, Camp Pendleton, Camp Pendleton Cross, Kathleen Johnson, Marine Corps 15 Comments »Nurse suspended after ‘Lifestyle of sin’ for gays with PTSD
November 18th, 2011 Justin Griffith I just got a head’s up from Mark Dingbaum at Change.org announcing the news. It seems that the VA Hospital in Dallas is doing the right thing. Nurse Nanci Pandathurai has been suspended from seeing patients. To be clear, she is still going to work while the investigation concludes. Her duties will now be more [...]
Posted in Atheist Tags: Esther Garatie, LGBT, lorax, Marine Corps, Nanci Pandithurai, veterans affairs 6 Comments »
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