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56M Religious Affairs Specialist

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Overview

Religious Affairs Specialists provide technical expertise for religious support operations and advise commanders on how religion affects the unit and mission. They integrate religious support across military operations, strengthen spiritual readiness, and manage religious support resources at tactical, operational, and strategic levels.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: CL 90

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-19

Program scope has not been reviewed.

Policy applicability and coverage of the program's score routes have not been reviewed. Shown-route arithmetic is not an eligibility decision.

Source: smartbook-611-21-ch10c-fy2025 (source date 2025-12). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Core Skills

  • Integration of religious support into operations
  • Advice on religion's impact on missions
  • Religious support resource management

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Directors, Religious Activities and Education

Managing religious support resources and supporting spiritual readiness provides a foundation for coordinating congregational religious activities.

How to prepare: Create a sample retreat plan covering the event schedule, resource needs, and volunteer assignments.

What the civilian work involves
  • Identify and recruit potential volunteer workers.
  • Schedule special events, such as camps, conferences, meetings, seminars, or retreats.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Outlook

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 56M Religious Affairs Specialist

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 56M (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank enlisted, authority codeType enlisted

    Supports: Integration of religious support into operations, Advice on religion's impact on missions, Religious support resource management, Directors, Religious Activities and Education (O*NET 21-2021.00)

  2. O*NET: Directors, Religious Activities and Education

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Directors, Religious Activities and Education (O*NET 21-2021.00)

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Predecessor codes

Historical codes with documented links to 56M. Each history page explains the change.

71M1Chaplain Assistant71M2Chaplain Assistant71M3Chaplain Assistant71M4Chaplain Assistant71M5Chaplain Assistant

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