• VubDapple@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    My impression has been that the USA air force is perhaps the branch of the armed forces that is most controlled by high ranking evangelicals. Is there any reality basis to this belief?

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      No idea how it compares to the other branches. Would be an interesting question to run by one of those crazies who served in like all of them (one of the nurses I worked with in the AF then had previously been a Marine and soldier. I’ve had patients who claimed to have served in Marines, Army, Navy, and AF, but no way to tell of they’re full of shit or insane enough to actually do that (the amount of paperwork that would translate to…).

      Anyway, in AF med they’d hit us with the occasional “the lord willing” or something in official functions like change of command ceremonies or squadron "all-call"s, which was definitely crossed the line of what I’d consider acceptable (it should be 100% secular), but that’s the extent of it. No down-throat-ism or pressure to convert or anything.