Approximately 50 U.S. Army Reserve chaplains, chaplain candidates, and religious affairs specialists attended the Army Reserve Chaplain - Battle Focused Training (ARC-BFT) April 8-10 at Ft. McCoy.
This second iteration of a pilot training program, created by the 88th Readiness Division (RD) chaplain directorate and co-hosted by the 807th Theater Medical Command (TMC) chaplain section, revamped the norm of annual chaplain training events being almost entirely classroom-based and focused on specific topics with practical exercises. The revised training used only two days of classroom instruction to prepare for a culminating field event.
