Soldier For Life engages and connects the U.S. Army with organizations to support Soldiers, Veterans and their Families to create opportunities. Once you earn the title Soldier, you are a Soldier for Life. The Soldier For Life program can help you:

• Plan Your Path
• Find Employment
• Apply for education programs
• Learn about health and wellness
• Learn about the Army Retirement Planning Toolkit
• For more information, please visit: https://Soldierforlife.army.mil/

The Transition Assistance Program (TAP) provides information, tools, and training to ensure service members and their spouses are prepared for the next step in civilian life.

• TAP, provided under 10 U.S.C. 1144, is a cooperative effort among the Department of Labor, and the Departments of Defense, Education, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs, the Small Business Administration and the Office of Personnel Management.
• VETS administers a one-day employment preparation workshop that is mandatory for all transitioning service members and two optional two-day workshops for career exploration, technical career preparation, or general employment preparation.
• For more information, please visit: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/vets/programs/tap

The Army provides specialized training to individuals with specific skills i.e. Medical, Lawyers, Chaplains, and Music as required by the Army. The Army's other specialty Additional Skill Identifier schools are Air Assault, Sapper, Pathfinder, Special Forces, Delta Force and Ranger.

• Career Management Fields (CMF) / Military Occupation Specialty (MOS):
  • The Army provides additional specialized training to Soldiers that already have an MOS, this specialized training further enhances the Soldier to meet qualifications required to conduct unit's mission at higher echelons (tier groups 2, 3, 4 and 5). The ASI and SQI are codes that identify the training a Soldier has attained and identifies training requirements required for a duty position (as identified in MTOE, TDA and Unit Status Reporting).
• Special Qualifications Identifier (SQI):
  • SQI schools are considered specialty schools. The difference between SQI and ASI schools is that SQI schools are MOS-specific. For example, an Infantryman cannot attend Court Reporter School, but an Army paralegal can. Not every MOS offers specialty SQI schools. Additionally, some SQI schools are only open to ASI holders, as is the case with Special Forces Underwater Operations School; only qualified Special Forces Soldiers may attend.
• For more information on Army Skill Schools, visit the Army Benefit Portal.

The mission of the Army Chaplain Corps is to provide religious support to the Army by assisting the commander in providing for the free exercise of religion, and providing religious, moral, and ethical advisement and leadership.

• The Chaplain's job is to provide religious support to Soldiers from all faith traditions to include those who hold no faith.
• The four top priorities of Army Chaplains are:
  • Nurture the Living: Worship, Prayers, Retreats, Baptisms, Counseling - Confidential/nonmedical Counseling. For those in BCT it includes:
    • Prayer - leading Sunday worship services
    • Matters of faith, religion and or spirituality - including religious supplies and resources
    • Morale and overall mental wellbeing - including counseling
    • Potential EO or SHARP violations
    • Issues related to abuse, abuse of authority or mistreatment or lack of professionalism
    • Relationship issues with fellow Soldiers or Leadership
    • Help Soldiers handle problems from home
    • Above all, encourage trainees as they become Soldiers!
  • Care for the Wounded: Physical/Spiritual/Psychological wounds - Via confidential counseling and ongoing support. Only the Chaplain can provide absolute confidentiality. Everything mentioned to a chaplain as a matter of conscience is confidential. THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS.
  • Honor the Dead: Delivering Red Cross messages to Soldiers, Assisting with Death Notifications, Planning and Conducting Funerals, Burials, Memorial ceremonies, etc.
  • Advise: Instruct Battalion & Company Commanders on the impact of religion and faith on training and operations (For example: religious holidays; Soldiers with specific religious dietary needs such as fasting; or uniform/grooming exemptions for religious reasons, such as Hijabs, etc.).
• Army Chaplains cannot:
  • Get Soldiers out of Training. Soldiers must train to graduate, and Chaplains cannot come to training areas and remove a Soldier.
  • Get a Soldier out of trouble.
  • Make Command Decisions. The Chaplain is NOT a Commander. The Chaplain has no authority to change a disciplinary proceeding.
  • Perform a marriage ceremony while the Soldier is in training.
  • Send a Soldier home. The Chaplain is NOT a Commander and cannot make Command decisions. Overall, the Chaplain's responsibility is to see Soldiers through their training experience and to ensure they are able to practice their religious faith.