From here:

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — In the military, there are more than 3,000 chaplains who minister to the spiritual and emotional needs of active duty troops, regardless of their faiths. The vast majority are Christians, a few are Jews or Muslims, one is a Buddhist. A Hindu, possibly even a Wiccan may join their ranks soon.

But an atheist?

Strange as it sounds, groups representing atheists and secular humanists are pushing for the appointment of one of their own to the chaplaincy, hoping to give voice to what they say is a large — and largely underground — population of nonbelievers in the military.

The atheist chaplains will, no doubt, console their faithful with the reassurance that if they are killed in battle, a great black nothingness awaits them. Don’t worry about losing a limb because worms will eat your mortal remains anyway, attached or not; and the framers of the just war theory based their ideas on a belief in God, so if they were wrong about God, there is no such thing as a just war and you might as well desert.

A real morale booster.