text: Chapter 2
  shape. This context emphasizes extensive leadership preparation to include analyzing the role of religion in
  an OE and advising on its impact on mission success.
  2-6. The Army’s preeminent challenge is to balance expeditionary agility and responsiveness with the
  endurance and adaptability needed to complete an operation, no matter what form the operation eventually
  assumes. Several factors can reduce the effects of uncertainty, chance, and friction. Determination and high
  morale are significantly influenced by well-developed religious beliefs and spiritual character. Chaplain
  sections and UMTs seek to develop or strengthen the individual’s spirit in order to enhance the resiliency of
  the force as it supports the fast, fluid, and unforeseen demands of decisive action. The free exercise of religion
  reduces personal stress and anxiety, and provides continuity in the exercise of individual religious practices,
  disciplines, and personal world view. Chaplains and religious affairs specialists assist the commander and
  the Service member with the refinement and application of individual religious beliefs and spiritual
  constructs. Chaplains and religious affairs specialists work with their commanders and Service members to
  build knowledge and respect that fosters individual and collective accountability and religious insight.
  Chaplains and religious affairs specialists live out the shared experiences of the Army Family and provide
  dedicated skills to resolve conflict, foster faith, and enhance unit readiness and individual Service member
  and Family resiliency.
  FORCE PROJECTION AND RELIGIOUS SUPPORT
  RESPONSIVENESS
  2-7. Force projection is the military component of power projection. To apply national power globally, the
  Army executes missions through force projection. Speed is paramount. Force projection encompasses five
  processes: mobilization, deployment, employment, sustainment, and redeployment. Each process requires a
  RS plan enabling the chaplain and religious affairs specialist to support Service members and the unit
  mission.
  2-8. As a religious leader, the chaplain’s first priority is the care of Service members, Families, and civilians
  working under the stress of rapid force projection. As the professional military religious advisor, the chaplain
  can expect to participate in the unit’s planning process that can include task-organization changes, religious-
  support coordination requirements, and integration of Army contractors authorized to accompany the force
  and unified action partner considerations.
  2-9. Deploying units require external RS during the mobilization, deployment, redeployment, and
  demobilization phases. This RS is the responsibility of the chaplain sections and UMTs assigned to the home
  station and the mobilization site, and theater or Army Service component command (ASCC) RS assets at
  intermediate staging bases. Because deploying units deploy with their assigned RS assets, RS of the rear
  detachment, including non-deployed unit personnel, Family members, and authorized civilians is the
  responsibility of home station RS personnel. This includes RS for deploying and redeploying RS assets who
  are themselves going through the process and in need of training and time for family reunion activities. The
  home station family life chaplain should consider separate reunion training for RS personnel and their Family
  members to increase the effectiveness of such training.
  2-10. RS functions span all three levels of war—strategic, operational, and tactical. The levels of war operate
  within a whole of government approach as they model the relationship between national objectives and
  tactical actions. National leaders formulate strategy for employment of the national elements of power
  (diplomatic, informational, military, and economic) to achieve national objectives both domestically and
  internationally. Leaders at the theater and joint force level utilize operational synchronization to link tactical
  employment of forces to strategic objectives. The tactical level utilizes the ordered arrangement of forces in
  relation to one another in support of operational objectives. Echelon of command, and capabilities might
  occupy a normative relationship to a particular level of war, but the relationship to the levels of war is more
  dependent upon the nature of their task, mission, or objective. (See FM 3-0 for a discussion of relationships
  among echelons.) RS occurs simultaneously and continuously from the force projection platforms to the
  forward operational areas. RS tasks require integrating a vision of RS across the levels of war. Planning,
  preparing, executing, and assessing RS is a detailed, systematic, and coordinated process that remains
  relevant and responsive to the commander’s mission and the Army Family.