Duties
Duties performed by the Chaplain Assistant include:
- Coordinating Unit Ministry Team activities
- Maintaining physical security of Unit Ministry Team facilities/equipment
- Safeguarding privileged communications and offerings
- Arranging religious retreats and memorial ceremonies
- Supporting the Unit Ministry Team readiness program
- Maintaining chaplain vestments and religious items
- Ensure worshippers are comfortable in their religious surroundings
Essentially, a Chaplain Assistant, or 56M (in the US Army), is the "how" in religious accommodation in both a peacetime setting as well as in a combat environment. In a combat environment, however, the Chaplain Assistant's job becomes much more vital to the needs in the Army. The Chaplain himself/herself is not a combatant, meaning s/he is restricted from bearing arms. The Chaplain Assistant, as the only combatant in the UMT, is to apply force protection. He does this because of the vital role of the Chaplain in a combat environment: the Chaplain is to support not only the religious welfare of the unit, but also the overall morale of the troops, which is a key issue in any combat environment.
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