Controversy Over Air Force Academy Distribution of Memo On Religious Neutrality

As previously reported, last month Air Force Chief of Staff Gen Norton Schwartz issued a memo cautioning commanders not to use their positions to promote their personal religious beliefs to their subordinates, or to extend preferential treatment to any religion.  Now Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MMRF) researcher Chris Rodda writes that at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, the memo was not distributed beyond a small group of officers until MRFF used a large billboard at a busy Colorado Springs intersection to display the full text of Gen Schwartz' memo. The Air Force Academy denies that the distribution date was connected to the billboard. God and Country blog, a critic of MMRF, says that MMRF head Michael Weinstein does not understand normal chain of command operations.