The new contractor is the Mechanicsville, Virginia-based Mack Global LLC, Walter Reed said in its April 11 statement.
The Mack Global website says the company serves the U.S. military, government agencies and private companies in telework consulting services, administrative and religious staffing, transportation and roadway services, and professional development and training. Its product supplies portfolio includes janitorial supplies, tactical and training equipment, raw materials, and industrial machinery. It specifically names water-tight doors and gym equipment.
The religious staffing services section of the Mack Global website says the company helps provide staff for “chapel support, religious education coordinators, non-personal chapel support, hospice chaplains, and other religious staff.” The “typical religious position” it staffs are those for both Catholic and Protestant musicians, music directors, youth coordinators, and religious education coordinators.
Its staffers are ordained and have the required certifications and clinical pastoral education needed for success, according to the website. They are “ordained ministers and experienced leaders as pastors, priests, musicians, teachers, trainers and volunteers who favorably pass the background check application.” Company CEO Robin Mack, the website notes, “comes from a strong Christian background and served as a Chaplain at her university.”
The Archdiocese for the Military Services on Friday did not name Mack Global as the contractor but characterized it as “a secular defense contracting firm that cannot fulfill the statement of work in the contract.”
Archbishop Broglio expressed concern that “giving a contract to the lowest bidder overlooked the fact that the bidder cannot provide the necessary service.”