 For many Americans, going to church is an important part of their day. For those at Cadets Summer Training, the church must go to them. I believe just like Jesus preached outside, I love preaching outside. At CST, cadets are thrust into a stressful field training exercise known as FTX. During this event, religious specialists from the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps come out to assist cadets with all of their religious needs and hold religious services. These services are held so that they have that religious freedom to worship however they worship. We make sure that they have that opportunity to worship freely as is their constitutional right. Despite their exhaustion, cadets are quick to offer help and actively participate in these services. I actually was approached by a few cadets in my regiment. I was playing worship music on the Bluetooth speaker, but they were telling me that they were praising worship leaders back home at their home churches. They were like, man, if we only had a guitar or a piano, and I was like, I don't have any of those things with me, but I kept hearing them and hearing their heart. And finally, I went and I saw that there was a guitar rental place in Louisville, Kentucky. I drove 45 minutes away, rented it for like $10 for the week, and they have been so ecstatic. For these cadets, faith is an essential part of being a soldier. We're supposed to be soldiers in God's army putting on the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the belt of truth, the shoes of peace, the shield of faith, and the sword of the spirit. And though we might not have all those same kind of components in the army today, those they all still apply where we can be soldiers in God's army and be a light in the U.S. Army. That sentiment is shared across all religious backgrounds. In Islam, it's a concept that gives us a great sense of duty to others. I want to give my army community and the Islamic community as well as much as I can as it comes to giving them that spiritual time, bringing the human aspect back into a high stress environment. So whatever your faith is, it's always important to put that time to develop your relationship between you and whoever you worship so that you can always have something even when you don't have anything else. Reporting for the CST Public Affairs Office, I'm Brad Moore.