Military chaplain

Hi, I'm Flight Lieutenant Chris Sully, and welcome to the latest RAF Inside Air podcast.

In this episode, we'll be talking RAF Padres.

On ops, they wear the same uniform, they live in the same conditions, and they share the same risks, but they go unarmed.

That is, perhaps except for a bag or two of

So at some point during every RAF recruits phase one training, the Padre arrives for what I might describe as a robust chat.

It becomes immediately clear that this man or woman is far from a home county's vicar.

Well, who are the Padres and what's their role?

Our role is

English Standard Version.

And I have a New King James version purchased by Army Chaplain's assistant, Jody Halstead.

Hallelujah.

Now you might be asking, why all the pomp and circumstance? Why the dramatic music? Well...

... uh, stuff, you know.

And I was talking to her and she says, "You know, um, Chaps, you, uh, you kept me in this."

Wow.

And I, I didn't know if I had ever met her before, you know.