[NicknamedBob]

"Congratulations! Our former priest graduated today and is now a Marine/Navy Chaplain."

Congratulations indeed! But boy, that has to be the best job in the world.

You can perform baptism, last rites, and a burial at sea all in one operation.

[sionnsar]

LOL, I don't think our former priest would agree with you. But our Book of Common Prayer has services for all three (though the last is a special prayer):

At the Burial of the Dead at Sea.

¶ The same office may be used; but instead of the Sentence of Committal, the Minister shall say,

UNTO Almighty God we commend the soul of our brother departed, and we commit his body to the deep; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection unto eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ; at whose coming in glorious majesty to judge the world, the sea shall give up her dead; and the corruptible bodies of those who sleep in him shall be changed, and made like unto his glorious body; according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself.

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[Tax-chick]

Best wishes to the gentleman! We had some great Chaplains when I was growing up in the Navy. Shore duty could be a drag - parochial politics - but ship work separated the men from the boys.