THIS BOOK HAS BEEN REPLACED BY FM 3-83, RELIGIOUS SUPPORT DATED APRIL 2025 WHICH IS ON THIS WEBSITE

FM 1-05 Religious Support provides a cohesive understanding of the fundamentals of religious support. It is the Army’s doctrinal source for religious support planning, training, and execution.

Introduction

FM 1-05 is a key integrating publication that links the doctrine for the Chaplain Corps with Army and joint doctrine. FM 1-05 provides operational guidance for commands and religious support personnel at all echelons and forms the foundation for all United States Army Chaplain Center and School curricula.

This manual contains four chapters.

Chapter 1 describes religious support foundations, including the historical precedents for the Army Chaplain Corps as well as its roles, missions, and functions. Chapter 2 delineates the current operational environment, including the requirement to provide religious support across the range of military operations. Chapter 3 details the execution of religious support at the different echelons of command within our Army. Chapter 4 depicts planning for religious support across the conflict continuum using the operations process.

This book is a “BIG” size (the size of a regular sheet of paper). This website also has the popular “mini” (half the size of a regular sheet of paper).

The binding is with coil, allowing easy flipping of pages without jamming.

The color covers are laminated for weather protection with black and white inside printing.