CREDO offers Camp Pendleton families personal and spiritual development

CAMP PENDLETON – For individuals who need help with marital, family and deployment issues, the Chaplain’s Religious Enrichment Development Operation (CREDO) has been an invaluable service for members and their families working on Camp Pendleton for over 20 years.

According to the group’s website, the concept began in 1971 with the same acronym, but it stood for Chaplains Response to the Emerging Drug Order.

“The program was established by chaplains in the Vietnam era to confront the use of drugs by Marines and sailors,” said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Joseph E. Dufour, chaplain and group director at...