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SEALs

 * Eternal Father, faithful friend,
 * Be swift to answer those we send
 * In brotherhood and urgent trust
 * On hidden missions dangerous
 * O hear us when we cry to Thee
 * For SEALs in air, on land, and sea

Aviation (1943)

 * Lord, guard and guide the men who fly,
 * Through the great spaces of the sky;
 * Be with them traversing the air,
 * In darkening storms or sunshine fair.
 * O God, protect the men who fly,
 * Through lonely ways beneath the sky.

Aviation (variation)

 * Lord, guard and guide the men who fly
 * Through the great spaces in the sky,
 * Be with them always in the air,
 * In dark'ning storms or sunlight fair.
 * O, Hear us when we lift our prayer,
 * For those in peril in the air.

Marines

 * Eternal Father, grant, we pray
 * To all Marines, both night and day
 * The courage, honor, strength, and skill
 * Their land to serve, thy law fulfill
 * Be thou the shield forevermore
 * From every peril to the Corps.
 * -J.E. Seim, 1966

Seabees

 * Lord, stand beside the men who build
 * And give them courage, strength, and skill
 * O grant them peace of heart and mind
 * And comfort loved ones left behind.
 * Lord, hear our prayer for all Seabees
 * Where'er they be on land or sea
 * -R.J. Dietrich, 1960

Submariners

 * Lord God, our power evermore
 * Who arm doth reach the ocean floor
 * Dive with our men beneath the sea
 * Traverse the depths protectively
 * O hear us when we pray, and keep
 * them safe from peril in the deep
 * -David B. Miller, 1965

Navy Nurses

 * O God, protect the women who,
 * in service, faith in thee renew;
 * O guide devoted hands of skill
 * And bless their work within thy will;
 * Inspire their lives that they may be
 * Examples fair on land and sea.
 * Lines 1-4, Merle E. Strickland, 1972,
 * and adapted by James D. Shannon, 1973.
 * Lines 5-6, Beatrice M. Truitt, 1948

Arctic Exploration

 * Creator, Father, who dost show
 * Thy splendor in the ice and snow,
 * Bless those who toil in summer light
 * And through the cold Antarctic night,
 * As they thy frozen wonders learn;
 * Bless those who wait for their return.
 * -L.E. Vogel, 1965

Coast Guard

 * Eternal Father, Lord of hosts,
 * Watch o'er the men who guard our coasts.
 * Protect them from the raging seas
 * And give them light and life and peace.
 * Grant them from thy great throne above
 * The shield and shelter of thy love.
 * -Author and date unknown

Astronauts

 * Eternal Father, King of birth,
 * Who didst create the heaven and earth,
 * And bid the planets and the sun
 * Their own appointed orbits run;
 * O hear us when we seek they grace
 * For those who soar through outer space.
 * -J.E. Volonte, 1961

Doctors

 * Creator, Father, who first breathed
 * In us the life that we received,
 * By power of they breath restore
 * The ill, and men with wounds of war.
 * Bless those who give their healing care,
 * That life and laughter all may share.
 * -Galen H. Meyer, 1969
 * Adapted by James D. Shannon, 1970

Military Families

 * God, who dost still the restless foam,
 * Protect the ones we love at home.
 * Provide that they should always be
 * By thine own grace both safe and free.
 * O Father, hear us when we pray
 * For those we love so far away.
 * -Hugh Taylor, date unknown

Naval (General)

 * Lord, guard and guide the men who fly
 * And those who on the ocean ply;
 * Be with our troops upon the land,
 * And all who for their country stand:
 * Be with these guardians day and night
 * And may their trust be in they might.
 * -author unknown, about 1955

Ship's Dedication:

 * O Father, King of earth and sea,
 * We dedicate this ship to thee.
 * In faith we send her on her way;
 * In faith to thee we humbly pray:
 * O hear from heaven our sailor's cry
 * And watch and guard her from on high!
 * Author and date unknown

Ship's Decommissioning

 * And when at length her course is run,
 * Her work for home and country done,
 * Of all the souls that in her sailed
 * Let not one life in thee have failed;
 * But hear from heaven our sailor's cry,
 * And grant eternal life on high!
 * -Author and date unknown