Tuesday June 18, 2013
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During his famous Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln said that America is a nation “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” He proceeded to question whether or not such a nation “can long endure.” The testing ground for such a nation, as he observed, was not in the halls of academia or before the high courts. Rather, Americans prove defend their nation’s existence on the field of battle.

Since the conception of America, the United States military has stood as a line of defense between the American people and those who would see this great land conquered. During World War 2, it was the American military that crumbled the fascist war machines of Europe. Even today in Iraq and Afghanistan, our troops are fighting to rid the world of the disease that is radical militant Islam.

Edmund Burke once said “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” The United States military is our nation’s promise to both ourselves and our neighbors that evil will never triumph.

The men and women who volunteer to stand downrange of enemy fire deserve our prayers.

Through the “Adopt our Troops” program, you can both register and adopt a specific member of America’s armed forces in prayer. What greater gift could you provide these troops than intercession on behalf of our omnipotent God?

Please take the time to adopt one of these soldiers and pray for them every day. If you know a specific member of the military, please register them. More than anything we could personally give them, our troops need our support through prayer.

Featured Member of the Armed Forces for Prayer

PrayFocusArmedForcesGeneral James F. Amos, United States Marine Corps Commandant

James F. Amos was born in November 1946 in Wendell, Idaho. After graduating from the University of Idaho, he was designated a Naval Aviator, and held a variety of operational and staff assignments. He is a graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia, and the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.

He flew the F-4 Phantom II, and later the F/A-18 Hornet. He held joint command of Carrier Air Wing Eight on board the USS Theodore Roosevelt, and later assumed command of Marine Aircraft Group 31 in South Carolina. He commanded the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing and deployed with them to Kuwait and Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was Commanding General of the 11 Marine Expeditionary Force. He also holds rifle sharpshooter and expert pistol marksmanship badges.

In June 2010, Amos was recommended for nomination by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to the role of Assistant Marine Corps Commandant. He was formally nominated by President Barack Obama, receiving supporting from the Senate Armed Services Committee during confirmation hearings, and confirmed shortly thereafter.

IN THE NEWS: As lawmakers endeavor to determine the best way to curb the epidemic of sexual assault in the military, two approaches are emerging. On one end, responsibility for such cases reaches the highest ranks of military leadership and make it harder for military officials to charge or dismiss a court-martial conviction. On the other hand, such cases could be taken out of the military chain of command and put in the hands of military judges and juries. “If I honestly believed pulling the commander off the convening authority or disposition authority would fix it…I’d raise my hand and vote for it today,” said Marine Corps Commandant General James F. Amos. The Pentagon estimated in a recent report that as many as 26,000 military members might have been sexually assaulted last year, up from an estimated 19,000 assaults in 2012, based on an anonymous survey of military personnel. Amos acknowledged that his service “failed on this in the past. It has not been a top priority in the years past, the decades past … but it is now.”

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