[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 22020]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    WELCOMING CHAPLAIN SCOTT CROSLEY

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, please join me in thanking Chaplain 
Scott Crosley of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) for 
delivering today's opening prayer. Chaplain Crosley serves as the 
battalion chaplain for the First Battalion 187th Infantry Regiment, the 
``Leader Rakkasans.''
  These soldiers only recently returned to Fort Campbell from Iraq. 
While they were deployed in Iraq, I had the opportunity to visit them 
at forward-operating base Summerall. The Leader Rakkasans engaged in 
close combat with insurgent and terrorist enemies. They worked to train 
Iraqi army and police units, and they continued the work of building 
Iraqi civil society to offer a better future to the next generation of 
Iraqis.
  Chaplain Crosley came to the Army late in life, moving his family 
from his native California and heeding a call to tend to the spiritual 
and emotional needs of soldiers at war.
  In this time of deployment, his efforts helped soldiers deal with the 
stress of combat, separation from their loved ones and, above all, the 
loss of nine brother warriors in action.
  Mr. Speaker, we thank Chaplain Crosley and the soldiers of the 101st 
Airborne for their great service to our great Nation.

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