Sharron Angle & The B-2 Stealth Bomber Pilot, Together in the 'Lord's Army'

[Joanne98]

A few weeks ago I learned that one of the two Baptist churches Sharron Angle attends, the Fellowship Community Church in Reno, hosts one of two known chapters of a small ministry called "Task Force Patriot." The ministry slogan? - "Christ is our Commander-in-Chief." The ministry logo? - an American flag, a Christian flag, and between them a cross. Under is a slogan, "The Mission Comes First." It's an emblem for an aggressive, militarized form of Christian nationalism. But Task Force Patriot is notable for another reason.


The B-2 "Stealth" bomber is a fearsome weapon, billed as "capable of flying anywhere in the world undetected," to "arrive over its target, release precision munitions, and escape - confident in the fact that the bombs will hit their targets and that the plane will return home safely." It's also one of the most expensive pieces of war machinery on Earth. A single B-2 Stealth bomber rings in, for total program cost, at roughly $2.1 billion dollars per plane.
Three years ago, on a beautiful sunny late Saturday morning on May 27th, 2007, at a Baptist gathering co-hosted by Task Force Patriot, in an amphitheater in the Georgia woods, amidst a group of little more than a hundred people, I heard (and recorded) one of the United States Air Force's elite B-2 bomber pilots state,


"I'm going to have to separate myself from the service of this nation if it's required in order to propagate the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm not going to disregard my responsibilities. But if there ever comes a time when there is a priority to be made, a decision to be made, it must always rest in the work of the Lord and the Lord's army. Because that commission is greater than the one I received from the United States Air Force Academy."


The pilot was Major Brian "Jethro" Neal, and the commission he had received from the Air Force Academy included the charge inherent in an oath, sworn by all members of the US armed forces, that he would,


"support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."
Neal's statement seemed imply that his "commission" in the "Lord's army" superseded his commission, as an Air Force officer, to defend the Constitution and obey the President and the chain of command. As an elected official, Nevada Republican Senate hopeful Sharron Angle has sworn similar oaths, to defend the American Constitution and, by extension, American Democracy. Like Neal, Angle has made statements that suggest she is less than fully committed to Constitutional democracy.

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[Historic NY]

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