What are you opinions on Chaplain Assistants getting "Special Treatment" from their units?

What about the Medical personal not having to pull CQ and SDNCO?

If you have so much time on your hands that you are watching the chaplain's assistant, then we have some rocks that need to be painted.

I was in Germany with the Army 1966-1968 and had a chaplain Assistant in my unit. He got special treatment. I was an NCO and we had an inspection coming up. He said that I don't have to do anything to help clean, I'm a Chaplain asst> I said try and go on leave or pass I will make sure you Don"t I was not backed up by command

They r doing extra by helping the chaplain doesn t it equal out? As long as they don t miss any training I m good with it!

Soldiers who think a specific MOS or task is 'more special' than their own, should just go talk to the NCOIC and ask to serve a few days in that role. I'm sure they will be more than willing to 'accomodate' you on a behind the scenes tour of the unseen work. And after you try Chaplain assisting, I really encourage you to try working in the mess section. they have it great too!

Suck it up buckwheat

Grunt em like everyone else

Ill say this as well. Chaps and their assistants have perhaps one of the most psychological demanding jobs in the military. They are expected to befriend or get to know as many people in the battalion as possible, they're then expected to deploy with that battalion. When people get killed they're expected to officiate that service, same if soldiers kill themselves. They're expected to be there for that soldiers' surviving friends who are at that time filled with a lethal mixture of hatred and sadness and all they want to do is get out there and kill as many people as they can. They're expected to talk soldiers down from being in a bad enough spot to kill themselves and they probably fail just as often as they succeed. Not that preventing someone from killing themselves is a failure on their part, but like many medics they internalize it and blame themselves from losing a soldier. Many times they're called on to deliver bad news to deployed soldiers informing them that a member of their family has been killed or is very sick. They do all of this for other soldiers, but never really have anyone to decompress to themselves. Both my old chaplain and his assistant killed themselves within a year of each other and Id imagine some of those things had something to do with it. So if they need an extra day to relax, give it to them.

Im ok with it. The spiritual needs and mental help that a Chaplain and assistant might offer is better served than sitting on CQ. Im fine with it

Never gave it a thought,had enough to do taking care of my soldiers,instead of worrying about everyone else