MCO 1730.6 - Religious Ministry In The Marine Corps

Scope

MCO 1730.6 governs religious ministry in the Marine Corps. The current revision is MCO 1730.6G, signed 2024-05-28 and listed as Current on the MCPEL. The portal anchors commander religious ministry duties and chaplain-delivered resilience programming to this order. The archived text layer renders the opening line as follows, extraction imperfect.

This Order implements reference (a). revision and should be reviewed in its entirety.

Audience

• Commanders. Own the command religious ministry relationship and the oversight duties in the commander oversight matrix.
• Religious Ministry Teams and chaplains delivering ministry and confidential counsel.
• Marines and families using chaplain services and CREDO retreats.
• Leaders routing Marines to confidential chaplain support.

Content scope

Two portal surfaces anchor to this order. The commander oversight matrix carries a Religious Ministries row linked to this citation. The Marine-facing education services and resilience page lists the order among its sources for CREDO coverage.

Operative content

• The commander ensures the Religious Ministry Team has direct access to the commander, per the oversight matrix row.
• The commander provides a private, confidential workspace for the chaplain, per the same row.
• CREDO, the Chaplain Religious Enrichment Development Operation, provides regionally based religious ministry to build personal, relational, and spiritual resources for resilience, per the education services page.
• CREDO offerings include Personal Growth Retreats, Marriage Enrichment Retreats, and Family Enrichment Retreats, facilitated by trained chaplains and lay facilitators, confidential and voluntary.

Connection to higher policy

The archived opening section states the order implements reference (a). The repo evidence does not name reference (a). Verify the parent issuance against the source PDF before citing it.

Connection to Marine Corps doctrine and lower policy

• Commander oversight matrix. Pairs the Religious Ministries row with the other command program orders.
• The education services and resilience page co-cites MCO 1700.31, MCO 1500.55, and DoDI 1322.25 on the surface covering CREDO.

Status

Signed 2024-05-28. The MCPEL lists MCO 1730.6G as Current with publication date 2024-05-28. Source PDF on file from the 2026-04-26 archive snapshot. The external link opens the official landing page for the current version. The archived opening quote carries a broken extraction, so verify purpose language against the source PDF before quoting it elsewhere.