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How do any of those things indicated an increase in religious zealotry in the Navy? I've been a Naval Flight Officer for almost 10 years now and I have seen no indication of this. Although I know of incidents like the one you mentioned, the SI photo one in particular, it has much more to do with the political correctness that has taken hold in the military than with any religious zealotry.

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NFO? Well OBV you aviators wouldn't notice the religious folks, cus you're all convinced that YOU are GOD! [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Unavoidable bubblehead to flyboy barbs aside:
The LCDR who was busting my balls over the woman in Australia was a born again Christian who was attempting to force his own religious beliefs upon me by using his poor understanding of the UCMJ.

The SI swimsuit pix issue was brought to a head by the new XO, an evangelical, and an EM1, a devout mormon for wholly personal religious reasons vice worries about PCness.

These were just 2 examples. I have numerous stories, most seen in the surface and aviation communities. I didn't see a whole lot of the preaching BS on subs or SPECOPs for the simple reason that neither community really has time for the BS. As we both know, SURF ships, esp Carriers, have tons of room to carry marginally contributing sailors. To a lesser extent, in my experience, some air squadrons also carry a little loose change in their support personell.

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As for the original article, it in no way follows that religious zealotry at USAFA = religious zealotry in the Air Force (or military as a whole).

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I disagree wholeheartedly. The USAFA, UNA, and USMA are the core training points for the future of each of the service's officer corps. The numbers in the Officer food chain end up with a significant %(% much greater than the entry accesions %) of the CDR/LTCOL and above officers in each service being academy graduates. Attempting to indoctrinate them religiously whilst they are captive for 4 years is both wrong and longterm damaging to the force.

On a different note, what flavour NFO are you, fast mover, fixed wing, or you actually work for a living [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img], rotary wing?