DAFI52-104 governs Chaplain Corps readiness, including religious accommodation, spiritual fitness, leadership advising, and readiness support.
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DAFI52-104 covers chaplain operations, deployment briefings, embedded positions, joint bases, and joint operations. It requires readiness support activities, formal briefing content, coordination, and compliance with background-check, child-protection, and confidentiality provisions.
Chaplains provide religious worship, liturgies and rites, religious accommodation, pastoral care, unit engagement, counseling, and spiritual care.
RSTs will conduct readiness support through pre-deployment briefings, personnel deployment function (PDF) lines, preexposure briefings, unit engagement, and opportunities to enhance spiritual fitness opportunities.
Formal briefings will include, at a minimum, spiritual care opportunities, family spiritual support programs, and contact information for assigned RSTs and/or on call duty chaplains.
HC members should ensure religious accommodation, counseling opportunities, advise on religious affairs affecting the operational area, and brief on spiritual fitness considerations during deployment and reintegration.
Failure to obey provisions related to background checks, child protection, and confidentiality constitute a violation of Article 92(1), UCMJ—failure to obey lawful order or regulation.