The Armed Forces Chaplains Board makes recommendations to the secretary of defense and the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness on religious, ethical and moral matters for the military services and on policy matters, including protection of the free exercise of religion.

Mark F. Carr is theological co-director for the Center for Christian Bioethics at Loma Linda University in California.

Dr. Michael “Moshe” Akerman is was the director of the National Association of Judaism and Medicine, which looks at medical science in light of Jewish ethical tradition.

The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., trains officers for the Navy.

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., trains officers for the Army.

The U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., trains officers for the Air Force. The academy had been involved in controversy over charges of proselytizing by evangelical Christians, prompting an investigation in 2005.

Christianity Today’s Web site includes a section on Christian soldiers.

Read an Oct. 11, 2005, Washington Post article about the Air Force’s decision to distance itself from the ethics code of the National Conference on Ministry to the Armed Forces. The code includes the statement “I will not proselytize from other religious bodies, but I retain the right to evangelize those who are not affiliated.”

Read an April 2006 Christianity Today article about evangelical chaplains’ desire to use the name of Jesus while praying.