text: Chapter 4
  EXECUTING RELIGIOUS SUPPORT ACROSS THE RANGE OF MILITARY OPERATIONS
  4-22. The ROMO is a fundamental construct that helps relate military activities and operations in scope and
  purpose within a backdrop of the conflict continuum. All operations along this range share a common
  fundamental purpose—to achieve or contribute to national objectives. Military engagement, security
  cooperation, and deterrence activities build networks and relationships with partners, shape regions, keep
  day-to-day tensions between groups below the threshold of armed conflict, and maintain U.S. global
  influence. Typically, crisis response and limited contingency operations are focused in scope and scale and
  conducted to achieve a specific strategic or operational-level objective in an operational area. Large-scale
  combat operations occur in the form of major operations and campaigns aimed at defeating an enemy’s armed
  forces and military capabilities in support of national objectives.
  4-23. The chaplain section or UMT plans and prepares to execute RS for Service members, families, and
  authorized civilians across the ROMO. This requires a continuous and precise RS plan that is executed at the
  right place, right time, and in the right amount in both routine and emergency situations. This requires the
  intentional integration of RS requirements into the operations process. All chaplains and religious affairs
  specialists must consider events that impact the execution of their tasks and plan and prepare accordingly.
  The chaplain section or UMT establishes RS priorities; considers the threat characteristics, the units
  conducting the main and supporting operations; and the severity and number of casualties from previous
  missions. They must prioritize elements that have sustained the most casualties or to those that will be
  engaged earliest in close combat.
  4-24. Staff integration and the ability to understand operation orders, graphic controls and measures, as well
  as the priorities of effort is essential to successful delivery of RS. A chaplain section or UMT without proper
  training and situational awareness will create hazardous conditions for unified action partners during unified
  land operations, become a casualty, or simply fail at delivering timely, relevant, and effective RS and
  advisement.
  4-25. The chaplain section or UMT always places a priority on first performing and providing RS to Service
  members, Family members, and authorized civilians. Depending on the mission of the unit and the type of
  unit they serve, chaplains and religious affairs specialists must be prepared to support the commander’s
  increased needs for advisement regarding host-nation religion and religious issues including places of
  religious worship, religious education, and cultural sites. The commander may leverage the chaplain to
  conduct Soldier and leader engagements as a means of supporting tactical or operational objectives.
  RELIGIOUS SUPPORT DURING OPERATIONS
  4-26. The chaplain and religious affairs specialist consider the items discussed in paragraph 4-22 through
  4-25 across all aspects of the ROMO. They also consider the specific items for consideration in the defined
  operations or tasks discussed in paragraphs 4-27 through 4-39. To fully understand an OE and RS impacts,
  RS personnel need to read FM 3-0, ATP 1-05.01, and fully integrate into the unit’s mission command
  processes.
  Religious Support During Operations to Shape
  4-27. Operations to shape consist of various long-term military engagements, security cooperation,
  deterrence missions, tasks, and actions intended to assure friends, build partner capability, and promote
  regional stability. The theater army integrates land power within theater engagement plans and security
  cooperation activities. Army units at the corps and lower echelons execute shaping tasks and provide forces
  for security cooperation.
  4-28. RS for operations to shape arise from either habitual security cooperation agreements or unexpected
  requirements due to OE changes. Chaplain sections and UMTs need to plan for either scenario. The
  environment will be marked by increased unified action partner activities requiring flexibility and the ability
  to gain and maintain situational awareness regarding RS capabilities across unified action partners. Short
  notice and rapid deployment requires trained and ready chaplain sections and UMTs with established and
  rehearsed load plans, detailed battle drills, and SOPs capable of self-sustained operations at echelon for 90 –
  120 days. Effective RS logistics requires regularly updated religious demographics analysis of the assigned
  unit. The unpredictable nature of operations to shape requires the development of research and advisement