text: Religious Support and the Operations Process
  * Attending confirmation briefings and rehearsals to ensure they are current with the operational
  plan and can provide relevant RS to Soldiers supporting the mission.
  * Conducting inspections of UMT personnel and equipment and rehearsing the plan by phase.
  * Coordinating for the support necessary to achieve mission success such as transportation or
  additional RS assets.
  * Training or rehearsing tasks critical to mission success to include survivability tasks.
  * Supervisory chaplains and religious affairs specialists use this time to ensure subordinate UMTs
  are focused and preparing to execute RS plans that support the commander’s plan. They ensure
  subordinate UMTs are properly positioned, resourced by command to meet the RS requirements,
  and have the ability to move and communicate.
  EXECUTING RELIGIOUS SUPPORT
  4-20. The end result of planning and preparing is mission execution. Execution puts the plan into action. For
  the chaplain section or UMT, this means that effective RS does not simply happen—it occurs because the
  team has planned, prepared, and then executed its mission.
  4-21. In operations where lethality and intensity are high, RS becomes increasingly important to Soldiers.
  To successfully execute the RS mission, chaplains and religious affairs specialists are guided by several
  critical sustainment principles. (See ADP 4-0 for sustainment discussion.) These sustainment principles
  impact the operations process chaplains and religious affairs specialists use to plan, prepare, execute, and
  assess—
  * Integration. Integration is the most critical principle. Integration of RS occurs throughout the
  operations process–plan, prepare, execute, and assess. One of the primary functions of the chaplain
  section or UMT is to ensure the integration of RS tasks with the unit’s operations plans. Not
  properly integrating RS and unit operations could result in mission failure.
  * Anticipation. Anticipation of RS facilitates responsive support. Anticipation is the ability to
  foresee events and requirements and initiate necessary actions that most appropriately respond to
  the need. Anticipating RS tasks means staying abreast of operational plans, continuously assessing
  requirements, and tailoring support to meet current operations and the changing OE.
  * Responsiveness. Responsiveness is the ability to meet changing requirements on short notice and
  to rapidly sustain efforts to meet changing circumstances over time. It includes the ability to see
  and forecast operational RS requirements. It is providing the right support in the right place at the
  right time.
  * Simplicity. Simplicity relates to processes and procedures. Clarity of tasks, standardized and
  interoperable procedures, and clearly defined command relationships contribute to simplicity.
  Simplicity enables economy and efficiency in the use of resources, while ensure effective support
  of forces.
  * Economy. Economy means providing sustainment resources in an efficient manner to enable a
  commander to employ all assets to generate the greatest effect possible. Economy reflects the
  reality of resource shortfalls, while recognizing the inevitable friction and uncertainty of military
  operations. Economy enables strategic and operational reach by reducing unnecessary use of
  transportation requirements.
  * Survivability. Survivability is the ability to protect personnel, information, infrastructure, and
  assets from destruction or degradation. UMTs integrate survivability considerations with
  operational planning to maximize their ability to function despite multiple threats to their safety.
  * Continuity. Continuity is the uninterrupted provision of RS across all levels of war and throughout
  all levels of command. UMTs, at all levels, work hand in hand with operational staffs ensuring
  synchronization of requirements over the entire course of the operation.
  * Improvisation. Improvisation is the ability to adapt sustainment operations to unexpected
  situations or circumstances affecting a mission. It may involve changing or creating methods that
  adapt to an enemy that quickly evolves. This requires commanders, their staffs, and Soldiers to
  improvise other possible means to accomplish an operations.