Chaplain serves troops overseeing military transports in Kuwait, Iraq

Published: 2004-06-25

LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- While many Los Angeles Catholics are with U.S. overseas troops in spirit, one Los Angeles archdiocesan priest is walking and working amid thousands of American soldiers as an Army Reserve chaplain in Kuwait and northern Iraq. Father Kevin Nolan, 40, pastor of St. Augustine Parish in Culver City, was deployed in February to minister to troops participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Two of his parishioners happen to be members of the same battalion -- a movement control battalion. Currently based in Kuwait, it oversees all land, sea and air transports. "My battalion, our fellow parishioner-soldiers and I are all safe and sound," Father Nolan said in a recent e-mail to St. Augustine parishioners.

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