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Profile of 4/2 SBCT Chaplain Junior Tupuola

Mar- 1-2010 » Filed Under: 4/2 SBCT

A long, twisting path for Army chaplain - The News Tribune

Thus began Tupuola’s long, unlikely journey to Iraq, where he serves as a chaplain with a Joint Base Lewis-McChord Stryker brigade in western Baghdad province.

Tupuola is one of the most visible people at his battalion’s base in rural Nasir wa Salam. He pops into offices. He organizes Bible study. He referees basketball tournaments. He hangs out at the morale tent. He pumps iron alongside the infantrymen in the weight room.

Chaplains can’t carry weapons, but Tupuola wears a sidearm holster with a Bible in it.

“Everyone knows chap,” said Lt. Col. Mark Bieger, commander of the 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment – part of the 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division.


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