{"id":32043,"date":"2015-06-17T23:32:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T02:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?page_id=32043"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:13:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:13:25","slug":"army-policies-on-religion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/religion-and-the-military\/army-policies-on-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Policies on Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>All Army Regulations can be <a href=\"http:\/\/armypubs.army.mil\/\">viewed here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/articles\/files\/r165_1.pdf\">Army Regulation 165-1<\/a>, Army Chaplain Corps Activities<\/strong><br \/>\n03 December 2009 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/articles\/files\/r1651_2004.pdf\">2004 version<\/a>]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Chaplains cooperate with each other without compromising their faith tradition or ecclesiastical endorsement requirements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The chaplaincy is an instrumentality of the US government to ensure that the &#8220;free exercise&#8221; rights of religion are not abridged.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/articles\/files\/r600_20.pdf\">Army Regulation 600-20<\/a>, Army Command Policy<\/strong><br \/>\n06 November 2014 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/articles\/files\/r600_20_2009.pdf\">2009 version<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Section 5-6, &#8220;Accommodating religious practices,&#8221; contains Army guidance on religious exceptions, exemptions, and other accommodations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Army places a high value on the rights of its Soldiers to observe tenets of their respective religions or to observe no religion at all&#8230;The Army will approve requests for accommodation of religious practices unless accommodation will have an adverse impact on unit readiness, individual readiness, unit cohesion, morale, good order, discipline, safety, and\/or health.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/articles\/files\/r601_210.pdf\">Army Regulation 601-210<\/a>, Active and Reserve Components Enlistment Program<\/strong><br \/>\n08 February 2011 [Updated 12 March 2013] [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/articles\/files\/r601_210_2007.pdf\">June 2007 version<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Section 4-15:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Conscientious objectors are persons who profess conscientious objections or religious convictions at time of application for enlistment that would restrict assignments and who desire to enlist as noncombatants.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Army Regulations can be viewed here. Army Regulation 165-1, Army Chaplain Corps Activities 03 December 2009 [2004 version] &#8220;Chaplains cooperate with each other without compromising their faith tradition or ecclesiastical endorsement requirements.&#8221; &#8220;The chaplaincy is an instrumentality of the US government to ensure that the &#8220;free exercise&#8221; rights of religion are not abridged.&#8221; Army Regulation 600-20, Army Command Policy [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":32029,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32043","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46475,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32043\/revisions\/46475"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}