Col. Ben Sprouse, left) a Virginia National Guard chaplain, who is currently serving as the V Corps deputy chaplain (forward), and 1st Lt. Stanley Bouadi (right), a chaplain assigned to the Virginia Beach-based 529th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 329th Regional Support Group, pose with Maj. Gen. Mika Kalliomaa, rector of the Finnish National Defense University, following the International Young Chaplains Course Sept. 25-29, 2023, in Helsinki, Finland. A total of 30 chaplains from the United States, Finland, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, United Kingdom, Sweden, and Ukraine participated in the event, hosted by the Finnish Defense Forces.