How have other Chaplains accepted Adventist Chaplains? Had it improved/decreased over the years?

It has increased. Our current group of chaplains meets requrirements, and has generally done a good job. We have become more accepted by other chaplains, and the institutieons where we work.

When I was a chaplain assistant in the Army, I was assigned to a Mormon chaplain. We once had a new chaplan, Plymoth Bretheran (John Darby--while not originating the idea of the rapture, this was the church that basically formed this view and spread it to other churches). When the new chaplain came he confessed to us that he was nervous... in college he was taught that the three major cults were Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons and Seventh-day Adventists, and was worried that he was working with a Mormon and a Seventh-day Adventist. I replied "That's fine, in college I was taught that the three major cults were the Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons and Plymoth Brethern, so we will all be nervous together" we laughed and laughed, had an excellent working relationship.

He also made an interesting discovery, he had gone to a Plymoth Brethern college, but to an Arminian seminary, and talking about Adventism and looking at some of Mrs. White's books, he realized that Mrs. White had made a oneness out of Calvinism and Arminianism and that Seventh-day Adventist theology is very similar to some of the ideas he's been developing after going to those two different schools.

Also, when I was at Andrews there were representatives from the department that became Adventist Chaplain Ministries, who mentioned how the military lives the Adventist chaplains, due to our feelings about liberty of conscience, we have been more flexable to work with diverse groups than some other chaplains have been.

Also, I mentioned how we did not have a chaplain deployed with our unit to Desert Shield / Storm, so they asked myself and two others to cover the religious programs and the needs to our patients and an Army chaplain from not too far away would help us out with supplies and other things as needed. The nurse who was a Catholic decon had the Catholic coverage, the other Psych Tech who had been a Baptist minister and I had the general protistant coverage, but due to my Adventist background I was also tasked to cover if the Catholic nurse could not make it, or for needs for Jewish or Muslim patients.