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Is the Army putting pressure on soldiers to be religious?

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Tags: military, comprehensive soldier fitness, U.S. Army, Jason Torpy, Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers

Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up on the first half of today's program an interview with Military Association of Atheists & Freethinkers (MAAF) president, Jason Torpy.

According to the group Atheists of Florida- Torpy says that over 23% of current military personnel are secular; ie, atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, freethinkers and other nontheists.

Torpy is in the Bay area to discuss the recently implemented US Army's “...