Dept. of Military Affairs: Outgoing state chaplain reflects on 25-year career
After a quarter century in uniform, one deployment, too many death notifications and dozens of Strong Bonds relationship events, Col. Doug Hedman — the Wisconsin National Guard’s state chaplain — is calling it a career. For the past 13 years Hedman has been the full-time chaplain for the Wisconsin National Guard, and the senior state chaplain for the last three years. The full-time chaplain conducts the daily activities of the chaplain corps, and represents the state chaplain in his absence. The state chaplain, which is a traditional Guard position — that is, one weekend drill per month and a 15-day