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I was in the Navy, and I thought that the military was Christian biased. I was raised Hindu, thus I've never ate beef or pork. I was out at sea on the USS Kennedy (CV-67), and the Culinary Specialists tend to use a tong to serve beef/pork, then use the same tong to serve chicken or other meats that I would eat. I complained about this, and about the days when there was no choice in foods because everything that they served was either beef or pork, but they did nothing. I couldn't eat the salad because they put bacon bits in it. I spoke with the Command Master Chief, Master Chief Davis, and he acted as if he was going to do something about it, but it was never addressed. And when I complained about the food to the cooks, they didn't care. Everyone else was Christian. I went days without food and had trouble sleeping because of hunger and my determination to not eat beef or pork.

At night out at sea, the ship's pastor always said a prayer over the ship's intercom (1MC) that seems to be Christian and military biased.

In Navy boot camp, my recruit division commanders used to talk about their belief in god. It was very upsetting to me because I felt like it was a slap in the face, it was as if they were calling me stupid but I couldn't say anything back to them because I would have got punished.

Even though the military states that we had freedom of religion, sometimes while eating at the galley on Naval Air Stations, military pastors would come around and start talking to us about their imaginary god.

Though I was raised Hindu, but I've always been an Atheist, and I still don't eat beef or pork because of personal preference.
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