Military Looks At Revised Insignia For Chaplains

Yesterday's Washington Post reports that Major Gen. Cecil Richardson, chairman of the Armed Forces Chaplains Board, has appointed an advisory committee to make recommendations on creating a new chaplain's insignia for military chaplains to wear.  As the chaplaincy corps becomes more diverse, the separate insignia currently worn by chaplains of each faith sometimes makes it difficult to identify the person's position. So Pentagon officials have endorsed a proposal by retired chaplain Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff to have a new insignia which will carry an identical symbol for all chaplains, and next to it a specific symbol of the individual chaplain's religious affiliation.