Per the article, it was known ahead of time that the speaker planned to use the old version of the speech, which includes God, and the base commander had sought to prevent it from happening.
...the base commander had sought to prevent it from happening....
As the old saying goes, “There are no athiests in foxholes.”
Where are the real men!? If this happened in the Battalion, it wouldn’t matter how many officers they had or how many MPs they had. Nothing would of stopped a bunch of pissed off Patricia’s.