fleet. The NCSC trains Navy chaplains (1945, 4105, 4100) and religious program specialists (RP) to fulfill a critical role in helping the Department of the Navy achieve and maintain a ready force. Accession-level RP training is located at Naval Technical Training Center Meridian, Mississippi. Mission The mission of the Chaplain Corps is: PROVIDE religious ministry and support to those of our own faith. FACILITATE for all religious beliefs. CARE for all Marine, Navy and Coast Guard personnel and their families. ADVISE commanders to ensure the free exercise of religion. Priorities Promote ethical and moral behavior throughout the Sea Services. Ensure religious ministry enhances current readiness. Think strategically for future readiness. Employ Reserve religious ministry assets more effectively. Realign assets to improve religious ministry for operational forces. Improve recruitment and retention. Enhance external and internal communications. Leverage technology to support the mission. Guiding principles The guiding principles are: We are faithful to our individual religious traditions and practices. We respect the right of others to hold spiritual beliefs and religious practices different from our own We cooperate and collaborate in ministry. We are committed to the highest standards of morality and personal integrity. We are committed to professionalism in the performance of duty. Vision Mission-ready sailors, marines, and their families, demonstrating spiritual, moral and ethical maturity, supported by the innovative delivery of religious ministry and compassionate pastoral care. Controversies The United States Navy is required to be responsive to diverse requirements of sailors, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, Merchant Marines and all their family members. Since its inception over two centuries ago, the United States Navy Chaplain Corps has experienced several controversies in fulfilling such requirements as a Staff Corps community within the U.S. Navy. Some contemporary controversies include the filing of class-action lawsuits by "non-liturgical" active and former active-duty Protestant chaplains alleging religious discrimination. These chaplains argued that the Navy allegedly employed a quota system that caused "non-liturgical" Protestant chaplains to be underrepresented through the current career promotion established by the Department of the Navy. In the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, Accommodating Faith in the Military (dated 3 July 2008) states: "That precise question has been raised in a series of cases, going back a decade, over the way that the Navy selects chaplains. These lawsuits allege that the Navy has hired chaplains using a "thirds policy," a formula dividing its chaplains into thirds: one-third consisting of liturgical Protestant