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military chaplains are responsible for

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a lot more than a soldier's spiritual

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well being . And the chaplain from the

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230 Engineering Battalion whose mission

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is to conduct route clearance might say

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he is the psychological gauge , which

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measures how much a soldier can take .

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There's a lot of stress that that are

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on these soldiers , they are bearing

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the brunt of this war . And as the

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chaplain explains , they often don't

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know how to deal with the inner turmoil

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that continues to build mission after

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mission . Yet they don't necessarily

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have to be involved in catastrophic

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situations . The fear of an event or

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what may happen to others around them

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is enough to generate a tremendous

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amount of anxiety . Soldiers are not

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machines , they're not robots , they

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don't train them to not think and they

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have emotions . There needs to be a

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decompression that soldiers have . A

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lot of this is physical stress , A

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positive stressor beats out a negative

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stress or any day , get some exercise .

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And although he freely admits that

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doesn't solve every problem , it's

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proven to reduce the overall level of

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anxiety and without a doubt , the

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soldiers under his care have responded

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well to his counsel , reporting from

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Afghanistan . I'm Public Affairs

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Officer , Lieutenant Seth , I'll if