Army Puts Muslim in Charge of Division's Spiritual Needs | Military.com
I think we are over the hill, USA. We've lost the handle. We don't know where we are going and we have forgotten where we have been.
I don't think you understand how the chaplaincy works in the military, and the writer of that article, even though it's "military.com" may not ever have been in the military to know either how it works.
In the Army, a "division" is the smallest organization that has all the organizational components it needs to "go to war." It has the "trigger-puller" units, but it also has food services, mortuary services, medical services, supply, maintenance, laundry, et cetera...including a chaplaincy.
The religious makeup of the chaplaincy will be proportional (ideally) to the religious makeup of the division. So if there are enough soldiers of a certain religion, they will have one or more chaplains (if available). The chaplaincy, like the other military units on the post, has an administrative hierarchy. IOW, someone is the commander of the chaplaincy, just as someone is the commander of food services, someone is commander of the hospital, et cetera. That "someone" will be the military senior ranking person. That's how the military does business.
The senior ranking doctor might, conceivably, actually be a dentist. Although senior in rank for administrative matters, he doesn't tell the senior internal medicine surgeon how to do surgery.
The same way with the chaplaincy. The senior chaplain may be Catholic, Jewish, Hindu, whatever for administrative purposes--but he does not direct any of the lower-ranking chaplains in how to minister to soldiers of their own religion.
Military chaplains also have the very important role of being counselors to soldiers. Chaplains of any religion may give personal counseling to soldiers of any religion. What makes this role important is that they are the only persons in uniform who have absolute confidentiality with the soldiers they counsel--if a soldier confesses to them of a wrongdoing, the chaplain is not under obligation to report it to the military commander. This is an extremely important role, and all chaplains agree to take their own religion out of the picture in this role.