ENTRUSTING HIS life to our elected government, the young recruit joins thousands of other young men and women in the mission of protecting the United States of America. Their service to God and country will require unwavering loyalty and obedience.
MILITARY PERSONNEL must be confident that what is expected of them by their nation, president and commanding officers is prudent and just for friend and foe alike. From superiors and fellow service members, military men and women should expect excellence in all things.
WITH FULL knowledge that true heroism in the service of one’s country arises from the day-to-day hard work of duty and strenuous labor, we beseech our gracious and provident heavenly Father to grant our soldiers, airmen, sailors and marines a lively faith, a gallant heart and a serene acceptance of his unsearchable will.
THOUGH IT brings sadness to the human spirit, we must acknowledge the dangers that men and women face in the defense of their nation. Many are gravely injured or killed and many more will suffer silently in the years after conflict is ended. In time of war, we continue to stand in solidarity with our soldiers, our airmen, our sailors and our marines who have pledged their lives for the well-being of all the families of our nation.
OUR LIVES depend on the cooperation and respect we give the soldier on the ground, the airman in the sky, the sailor and marine, and national guard. We civilians would do well to plant this truth deep in out hearts and to live our lives in such a way as to be worthy of being defended.
OUR YOUNG service men and women depend on Christian families who remember their sacred duty of interceding to God on their behalf. May the names of these brave men and women and the record of their noble service to God and country not be forgotten.
MAY THE peace of Christ become the peace of nations: “For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” [Eph 6:12]
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