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Legalman

E-4 (Specialist/Corporal) · Navy

E1–E3E-4E-5E-6E-7E8–E9
HEADS UP

LN3 is where the intake runs off your hands without the LN2 catching it — which means the mistakes also run off your hands without the LN2 catching them. The SCRA request you misrouted, the ADSEP notification you served incorrectly, the charge sheet element you got wrong: at LN3 those come back to you first, not to the LPN. The NWAE for LN2 is the single most consequential professional development move you can make at this rank — the LN community's advancement quotas mean the candidate who scores with margin advances, and the one who scores at the cutoff waits.

The Honest MOS Read
Petty Officer Third Class Legalman (LN3, E-4) is the rank where the legal office starts relying on you rather than supervising you. The walk-in sailor sees a crow on your collar and assumes you know what you are talking about. The attorney assumes the intake you ran is accurate. The LN2 assumes the exhibit package you assembled is complete. Those assumptions are mostly true — if you built the habit discipline in the apprentice phase — and that trust is what makes LN3 the seat where the work gets interesting and the mistakes get expensive. The legal assistance caseload at LN3 is yours under attorney supervision. You run the intake from walk-in to closed file — screen the problem, book the appointment, prepare the documents, stage the attorney review, and close the file. At an NLSO regional command that might be 10-15 cases per week in a steady operational tempo; at a deployment-cycle command in the two weeks before a major ship deployment it is 30-40 cases in a sprint. The SCRA (Servicemembers Civil Relief Act) requests that were abstract in A-School become real client situations: the sailor whose landlord is trying to evict him despite the deployment orders he provided, the sailor whose credit card company is not honoring the interest rate cap, the soldier whose auto loan is at 24% when the law says 6% maximum for covered debt. Each of those has a correct statutory answer (50 USC Chapter 50 is the text), a correct routing procedure, and a correct documentation requirement — and the sailor who gets the wrong answer from you at intake carries that wrong answer into the attorney's office and sometimes acts on it before the appointment. The NJP and administrative separation pipeline is where LN3 develops the discipline that distinguishes the future chief from the journeyman petty officer. Assembling an NJP exhibit package is procedurally exacting: the exhibit index has to match the actual exhibits, the exhibits have to be in the order the commanding officer's legal officer presented them (or the order the command established by SOP), the respondent's rights advisement documentation has to reflect the actual advisement that occurred, and the post-hearing filing has to happen within the timeframe the command JAG office has established. One defective rights advisement in an ADSEP package — a missed signature block, a wrong version of the form, a notification served by the wrong method — is reversible error. The proceeding restarts, the commanding officer is told, and the trace runs to the last petty officer who touched the package. Courts-martial exposure at LN3 begins in support roles: maintaining the docket under LN2 direction, staging exhibits under government counsel's guidance, managing the pre-trial administrative record, coordinating witness notification under RCM 703. You are not running the trial; you are keeping the infrastructure running so the attorneys can lawyer. But understanding the Rules for Courts-Martial (RCM) at a working level — the preferral timeline, the investigation requirements, the discovery obligations — makes you the kind of support LN that government counsel trusts to flag a docket problem before it becomes a motion. The Navy's Legal Case Management system (Navy LSSS or the current legal case tracking platform at your command) is a professional competency, not a computer skill. The system tracks every client contact, every case type, every deadline, and every attorney assignment. A petty officer who can pull a docket report, run a caseload summary, and generate the status brief the legal officer presents at the weekly sync — without the LN2 running the query — is the LN3 the legal officer asks for by name. The Chief board is not your conversation yet. But the profile that produces a Chief-board-competitive LN1 is being built from the first eEVAL at LN3. The trait marks the evaluating officer assigns, the ranking among your peer LN3s, and the bullets the LPO writes about your specific caseload outcomes — that is the profile that the chief selection board reads eight years from now. The LN3 who treats the first eEVAL as a formality is the LN1 who wonders why his chief board packet does not reflect the work he did.
Career Arc
  • 01Upon advancement to LN3: transition from supervised apprentice work to primary client contact under attorney supervision; LN2 review shifts from reconstruction to spot-check.
  • 02Year 1 as LN3: legal assistance caseload ownership, SCRA intake and routing, NJP exhibit assembly under LN2 quality control; NWAE BIB for LN2 pulled and study milestone built.
  • 03Year 1-2: Courts-martial support work begins — docket maintenance, exhibit staging, witness notification coordination; Navy LSSS / case management platform proficiency solid.
  • 04Year 2: LN2 NWAE cycle; advancement score with margin is the target. ABA paralegal certification prerequisites (documented experience hours) accumulating — identify which certifying body (NALA, NALS, or NATE) fits your experience profile.
  • 05Year 2-3: If LN2 selected, begin transition to LN2 responsibilities; PCS detailing cycle begins; identify the next billet type (NLSO vs. command legal office vs. Marine Corps assignment) with the detailer.
  • 06Throughout: eEVAL traits and ranking building toward an LN1 profile; LPO or LN1 mentoring on the chief board horizon (it is not close, but the profile starts now).
Common Screwups
  • ×Serving an administrative separation notification incorrectly — wrong method (personal vs. certified mail), missing proof of service, using a superseded form version — which converts a straightforward ADSEP into a contested proceeding. The commanding officer's legal officer traces the defect to the last person who prepared the service documentation, and that is you.
  • ×Overpromising a client outcome at intake. 'You should be able to get out of that lease' is legal advice you are not licensed to give; when the attorney's assessment differs, the sailor holds you to the intake statement and the trust in the legal office is damaged.
  • ×A DUI, financial irresponsibility flag, or Article 15 action. An LN3 who generates an NJP case — in the office that processes NJP cases — is a case study the entire command legal community discusses. The legal office cannot recover from the optics, and the career rarely recovers from the permanent record.
  • ×Missing a SCRA request deadline. The 6% interest rate cap for covered military debt requires proper notice to the creditor within a specific window; a sailor who does not get the cap enforced because the routing was late has a real financial injury, and the routing was your intake.

A Day in the Life

  • 0530-0630Command PT. Legal office shore commands run a typical PT formation — 3-5 mile runs, circuit PT, unit runs on Wednesday. BCA check is annual; PT standard is Navy-wide regardless of shore assignment.
  • 0700-0730Pre-opening prep: pull files for scheduled appointments, verify the appointment log is current from yesterday, brief the LN2 on any open items from the previous day's docket.
  • 0730-0900Legal assistance appointment block — intake running, documents prepared, attorney handoff staged. Walk-in triage continues through the morning. SCRA and POA requests that need same-day turnaround get prioritized.
  • 0900-1030Document production: ADSEP package assembly under LN2 supervision, NJP exhibit preparation and index verification, case management system docket entries. One exhibit wrong or one index entry off is two hours of rework at 1500.
  • 1030-1130Courts-martial docket maintenance if a case is active — exhibit staging log updates, witness notification tracking, RCM 701 discovery compliance entries. If no active courts-martial, this block goes to SCRA routing and claims processing intake.
  • 1130-1300Lunch, duty desk coverage on rotation, case management system updates from the morning's activity.
  • 1300-1430SCRA routing and claims processing intake if applicable to the command, closed-file documentation for the morning's legal assistance closures, attorney review coordination for completed packages.
  • 1430-1500Mentoring or observe LN3 on a specific procedure — intake checklist walkthrough, document review, or a correction from this week's work presented as a teaching case study rather than a criticism.
  • 1500-1600NWAE study — structured, from the current BIB, with a milestone date. This is not optional if advancement matters.
  • 1600-1630End-of-day log audit, file check, brief the LN2 on any overnight items (deadline approaching, client callback needed). Secure after the LN2 or LN1 sign-off.

Weekly Cadence

Monday morning the docket is fresh and the walk-in surge from the weekend is coming. Monday is intake-heavy — sailors who received legal correspondence over the weekend, sailors who got a Friday NJP notification and did not process it before liberty, sailors whose deployment orders just published and who need POAs before they leave in 10 days. Tuesday and Wednesday are the production days: legal assistance packages complete, ADSEP exhibits assembled, courts-martial docket entries current. Thursday is often training day in a well-run LN section — the LPO or LN1 runs a procedure walk-through, a BIB study session, or a case study from the week's caseload. Friday is end-of-week reconciliation and docket review: every case with a deadline in the next two weeks identified, every attorney-review-pending package flagged, every close-out package filed. The rhythm shifts before deployments — intake volume spikes, hours extend, and the 'typical' workday does not apply. The LN3 who has built the procedural habit discipline weathers the deployment POA sprint without mistakes because the checklist is automatic. The one who relied on the LN2 catching errors during normal tempo has a harder time when the LN2 is also running a 14-client afternoon. Courts-martial timing is its own rhythm within the week. When a general or special courts-martial is in session at an NLSO command, the LNs supporting the trial are running the trial's logistics concurrently with the normal caseload. Docket entries happen daily, exhibit staging and evidence chain-of-custody documentation happen before every session, and the record-of-trial documentation starts accumulating from the first day of proceedings. The trial counsel calls the legal office; you answer with current docket status.

Key Skills — How to Drill Each

  1. 01
    Process a complete legal assistance appointment — intake through closed file — without attorney reconstruction.
    Build a standard intake checklist you run mentally (or on paper, until it is automatic) for every case type: legal assistance, SCRA, will/POA, consumer debt. The checklist covers what documents the client needs to bring, what questions you need answered before the attorney sits down, and what the close-out documentation looks like. An attorney who opens the file and finds everything staged correctly — client info, relevant documents, the legal question framed accurately — can do the legal work in 30 minutes rather than 90. That is the standard you are building toward.
  2. 02
    Prepare a complete ADSEP notification package under MILPERSMAN 1910 series.
    Read the specific MILPERSMAN 1910-series chapter for the basis of separation you are working — they are not all identical, and the notification requirements, election-of-rights form, and characterization memo vary by basis. Build an exhibit index before you start assembling and check the exhibit against the index when the package is complete. The respondent's signature on the notification form is not just paperwork — it starts the response timeline clock.
  3. 03
    Identify applicable SCRA protections for a specific sailor's situation and route correctly.
    The most common SCRA provisions your clients invoke are the interest rate cap (50 USC § 3937), lease termination (§ 3955), and stay of civil proceedings (§ 3932). Know which provision applies to which situation cold — not from memory alone, but from a quick cross-reference against the statute. The routing question (creditor notification, court filing, command certification) differs by provision. Identify the right provision, confirm the routing, and do not overpromise the outcome — the attorney confirms the application, you confirm the intake.
  4. 04
    Operate the Navy legal case management system (Navy LSSS or current platform) with reporting proficiency.
    Go beyond data entry. Learn how to generate the caseload summary report, the open-case docket, and the attorney workload distribution report. These are the reports the legal officer uses at the weekly brief. The LN3 who can pull the brief-ready report without the LN2 running it for him is the one the LN1 names when the JAG officer asks who can cover the system.
  5. 05
    Serve a document in an administrative proceeding correctly and record proof of service.
    Personal service versus certified mail is not a style choice — the MILPERSMAN chapter for the specific basis specifies the required method. Personal service requires a witness; certified mail requires return receipt and the tracking record filed in the chronology. The proof-of-service entry in the exhibit index is not complete until the signed return receipt or the witness attestation is in the file. Check the entry the same day service occurs, not the day before the deadline.

Manuals & References — What Chapters Matter

  • UCMJ, 10 USC Chapter 47 — punitive articles Arts. 77-134
    At LN3 you need fluency in the articles most common in your command's caseload: Article 80 (attempts), 86 (AWOL/UA), 91 (insubordination), 92 (failure to obey), 107 (false official statements), 120-series (sexual assault), 128 (assault), and 134 (general article). Know the elements of each offense because the charge sheet (DD Form 458) you will eventually prepare at LN2 needs the elements correct.
  • MCM, current edition — Rules for Courts-Martial (RCM) and Military Rules of Evidence (MRE)
    The RCM governs the procedural timeline of a courts-martial from preferral through record of trial. At LN3 you work under the RCM without running it — but understanding RCM 305 (pretrial confinement), RCM 701 (discovery), and RCM 703 (witnesses) tells you what the trial counsel is asking for when he calls the legal office, and why the deadline he names is real.
  • JAGINST 5800.7 series — JAG Manual
    The operational procedure source for NLSO and command legal office work. At LN3 the legal assistance and claims sections are most immediately relevant; the military justice processing sections become important as your courts-martial support role grows. The JAG Manual is the document the JAG officer quotes when he corrects your procedure — read it before the correction, not after.
  • Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA), 50 USC Chapter 50
    The statutory source for every SCRA-based client request. Reading the actual statute — not a summary, the text — tells you what the protection actually says, what the conditions are, and what the creditor's or court's obligation is. The clients who come in with SCRA questions have often already talked to a creditor who told them SCRA does not apply to their situation; knowing the text of the statute is how you triage whether the attorney needs to push back.
  • MILPERSMAN 1910 series — Administrative Separation Procedures
    The chapter-by-chapter procedural source for every ADSEP basis you will encounter. Read the specific chapter for each basis you are currently working — not the entire series in sequence, which is too dense for survey reading. Identify the notification requirements, the election-of-rights form, and the characterization guidance for each basis, and build a checklist from it that the LN2 can audit.

Standards — How to Hit Each

  • NWAE for LN2 on the LPO's documented study-plan timeline.
    Build the milestone calendar with the LPO present — not a general reading plan, but a week-by-week BIB completion target with a date-certain mock exam before the actual NWAE window. The LN community's advancement quotas mean that scoring with margin above the cutoff is the only reliable advancement strategy. A candidate who scores at the cutoff advances if the quota is favorable and waits if it is not; a candidate who scores 10 points above the cutoff advances in almost any quota environment.
  • Zero incomplete or incorrectly served ADSEP packages on your docket.
    Use the exhibit index as your quality audit tool: before every package leaves your hands, the index and the actual exhibits must match document-by-document. Then check the service documentation specifically — method matches the MILPERSMAN requirement, proof of service is in the file, the response timeline clock is correctly started. Do that check every time, on every package, without exception.
  • PRT Satisfactory or better; BCA in standard throughout.
    Shore-side legal work does not provide the incidental PT that sea duty or field work does. Build the individual PT habit outside the command PT formation — morning runs, gym sessions, whatever keeps the cardio and strength baseline above the PRT standard. The PRT Satisfactory threshold is not the target; it is the floor. Sailors who PRT at Satisfactory and nothing above it over multiple cycles are the ones whose evaluating officers note it.
  • eEVAL trait average reflecting actual ranked caseload performance.
    Before the eEVAL window opens, give the LPO your caseload numbers: how many legal assistance intakes, how many ADSEP packages completed, how many courts-martial docket entries maintained, how many SCRA requests routed. The LPO writes bullets from facts, not from impressions. If you do not provide the facts the LPO is writing bullets from what he remembers, and the facts you remember are more accurate than the facts he remembers.

Technical Mistakes — Concrete Consequences

  • Assembling an NJP exhibit package with a mislabeled or mismatched exhibit letter.
    The commanding officer's legal officer presents the exhibits to the CO at mast. If Exhibit B in the index is actually Exhibit C in the folder, the CO has to stop and ask — and the legal officer has to explain that the package was assembled incorrectly. The command's confidence in the legal office is the thing that gets damaged, and it damages your chief board profile before your first PO2 eEVAL.
  • Promising a client a specific legal outcome without attorney authorization.
    The client walks into the attorney's appointment holding you to the outcome you described. The attorney's assessment may be more nuanced, less favorable, or simply different — and the client's first reaction is to blame the legal office for inconsistent advice. The attorney then has to spend the first ten minutes of a 30-minute appointment managing the client's expectations rather than addressing the legal question.
  • Treating an SCRA request as routine paperwork when the creditor has already taken adverse action.
    A sailor whose credit card company already reduced the credit limit or initiated collection during the deployment period has a potentially actionable SCRA violation on his hands — not just a request for prospective rate reduction. Missing the adversarial posture means routing to legal assistance instead of routing to the JAG officer for immediate review, and the window for the sailor's remedy narrows while the file sits in the routine queue.
  • Skipping the respondent rights advisement step or using a superseded form version in an ADSEP package.
    A defective rights advisement is reversible error in an administrative separation proceeding. The separation authority reviews the package, identifies the defect, and returns it. The proceeding timeline restarts from the point of defect, the commanding officer is notified, and the LN3 who built the package receives the correction personally from the LPO — in the presence of the JAG officer, if the defect is significant enough.
  • Discussing a respondent's ADSEP situation with his LPO or division officer before the proceeding is complete.
    Premature disclosure of the specific basis, evidence, or timeline of an administrative separation to the respondent's chain of command can influence the chain of command's testimony, the respondent's work environment, and the impartiality of the administrative board if one is convened. The procedural challenge this creates goes in the record and traces directly to the source of the disclosure.

Career Decisions at This Rank

  • NLSO regional command vs. command legal office for the next PCS.
    The NLSO assignment deepens specialization — you develop courts-martial support, claims processing, or legal assistance program management skills in a high-volume environment. The command legal office assignment deepens generalist competency and CO-interface experience. The chief selection board values both, but the NLSO assignment produces more documented caseload volume and more specific legal system proficiency. If you want to develop toward a chief-level legal specialist, the NLSO track is the more direct path. If you want the experience of being the senior legal presence at a smaller command — which develops a different kind of judgment — the command legal office is a legitimate choice.
  • Whether to pursue a Marine Corps assignment.
    LNs assigned to Marine Corps commands (via Marine Corps Base legal offices or Marine Corps installations) earn the FMF (Fleet Marine Force) Navy enlisted warfare qualification, which adds a warfare device to the uniform and a qualification credential to the record. The military justice caseload at Marine Corps units is often heavier per capita than the equivalent Navy command. The tradeoff is geographic — Marine Corps installations may not be your top geography preference — and the operational culture is different. For the LN who wants a warfare device and a heavier military justice caseload, the Marine Corps assignment is worth requesting.
  • Whether to start the ABA paralegal certification prerequisites now.
    NALA (National Association of Legal Assistants) requires documented work experience (one year as a paralegal under attorney supervision) to sit for the Certified Paralegal (CP) exam. NATE (National Association of Trial Exhibit Specialists) has different prerequisites. At LN3 you are beginning to accumulate the documented experience that will eventually support a certification application. The right move is to identify which certifying body's requirements best match your experience trajectory, begin building a documented work log (case types, hours, attorney supervision), and plan for the formal application at LN2 or LN1 when the prerequisites are met. Do not wait to think about it.

How the Seat Varies by Unit Type

  • NLSO Regional Command — Legal Assistance Section
    High client volume, structured queue management, attorney oversight close but shared across multiple LNs. You develop speed and accuracy on routine legal assistance work — POA, wills, SCRA, consumer debt — in a factory-like volume environment. The challenge is avoiding the automation habit where you stop reading each case individually and start pattern-matching without noticing the case that breaks the pattern.
  • NLSO Regional Command — Military Justice Section
    Courts-martial docket work, NJP processing, ADSEP pipeline management. The caseload is lower volume but higher stakes per case. The discipline required to maintain exhibit integrity and docket accuracy on a felony-level UCMJ case is a different kind of discipline than the legal assistance volume environment. LN3s in military justice sections develop faster into the charge-sheet and record-of-trial competencies that become LN2 and LN1 skills.
  • Ship's Legal Office (Large Deck)
    Afloat legal work is generalist and proximity-driven. The CO, XO, and CMC know who runs the legal office. The underway tempo means legal assistance appointments, NJP processing, and ADSEP cases all happen concurrently in the same confined space with the same small team. Deployment-cycle POA and will volume is extreme. The LN3 on a ship develops a kind of compressed competency — everything in parallel, small team, direct CO awareness — that is different from the NLSO shore tour.
  • Command Legal Office — Marine Corps Installation
    The client population is Marines. The military justice caseload is typically heavier. The culture prioritizes directness and the FMF qualification is available. The LN3 who works a Marine Corps legal assignment and earns the FMF device has a visible credential on the uniform that shore-side Navy LNs do not have — and the chief board reads the warfare device as evidence of additional qualification.

What Good Looks Like at This Rank

The good LN3 is the petty officer the JAG officer trusts to brief the morning's walk-ins while the attorney handles an emergency case in the back — not because the LN3 is practicing law, but because the intake is thorough, the referrals are accurate, and the clients who are told 'the attorney will advise you on that' leave the front desk with an appointment rather than an argument. The caseload performance that distinguishes the good LN3 is measurable: legal assistance packages that close without attorney reconstruction, ADSEP exhibit indexes that match their exhibits, SCRA requests routed to the correct authority on the first routing, courts-martial docket entries that the trial counsel does not have to correct. The LN2 spot-checks the work rather than rebuilding it — and the frequency of the spot-check decreases over the first 12 months as the trust accumulates. The LPO's eEVAL bullets for the good LN3 are specific: 'Processed 47 legal assistance appointments without supervision — zero attorney reconstruction required.' 'Assembled 8 ADSEP packages under MILPERSMAN 1910 series with zero defective service findings.' Those are the bullets the chief selection board reads six years from now and says 'this is the LN1 who builds on results, not impressions.' The LN3 who provides the LPO those numbers before the eEVAL window opens is the LN3 who controls his own profile.

Preview — The Next Rank

LN2 (E-5) is the first rank where you own a section of the caseload rather than a piece of it. The difference is not just volume — it is the accountability layer. Where the LN3 produces work the LN2 spot-checks, the LN2 produces work the JAG officer spot-checks. The attorney's confidence level in your charge sheet, your ADSEP package, or your claims intake is calibrated to your LN2 track record — and the track record is built from the first day you pin the second crow, not from the month before the eEVAL closes. The skill that becomes most important at LN2 is the training skill: you are now the LN who teaches LN3s and apprentices how the procedure works. The ability to transfer a technique — not just do it yourself, but explain it, demonstrate it, correct it in someone else, and sign off on it when it is right — is the skill that makes a chief, and the LN2 who builds that skill early is the LN1 the LCPO actually wants to develop. The Chief board conversation starts at LN2 — not the application, but the honest assessment of whether the trajectory supports it. The LCPO who is building the LN community is watching the LN2's eEVAL profile, the ABA certification progress, the warfare device status, and the JPME engagement. The LN2 who starts those conversations proactively — 'where is my profile compared to prior LN1 Chief selectees?' — is the one the LCPO makes time for.
FAQ

LN E4 — Frequently Asked Questions

Q01What does a E4 LN (Legalman) actually do?
You are the primary point of contact for legal assistance clients under attorney supervision — sailors, Marines, and their families navigating wills, powers of attorney, landlord-tenant disputes, consumer debt, SCRA (Servicemembers Civil Relief Act) protection requests, and family law questions that start with "can the Navy make me…" You draft correspondence, prepare legal assistance documents, and increasingly work the administrative separation and NJP processing pipeline: assembling exhibits,…
Q02What's the most important thing to know as a E4 LN?
LN3 is where the intake runs off your hands without the LN2 catching it — which means the mistakes also run off your hands without the LN2 catching them.
Q03What does a typical day look like for a E4 LN?
Time-blocked day at the E4 LN rank tier: 0530-0630 Command PT. Legal office shore commands run a typical PT formation — 3-5 mile runs, circuit PT, unit runs on Wednesday. BCA check is annual; PT standard is Navy-wide regardless of shore assignment, 0700-0730 Pre-opening prep: pull files for scheduled appointments, verify the appointment log is current from yesterday, brief the LN2 on any open items from the previous day's docket, 0730-0900 Legal assistance appointment block — intake running, documents prepared, attorney handoff staged. Walk-in triage continues through the morning.…
Q04What mistakes get E4 LN soldiers fired or relieved?
Serving an administrative separation notification incorrectly — wrong method (personal vs. certified mail), missing proof of service, using a superseded form version — which converts a straightforward ADSEP into a contested proceeding. The commanding officer's legal officer traces the defect to the last person who prepared the service documentation, and that is you; Overpromising a client outcome at intake.…
Q05What career decisions matter most at the E4 LN rank tier?
NLSO regional command vs. command legal office for the next PCS — The NLSO assignment deepens specialization — you develop courts-martial support, claims processing, or legal assistance program management skills in a high-volume environment. The command legal office assignment deepens generalist competency and CO-interface experience. The chief selection board values both, but the NLSO assignment produces more documented caseload volume and more specific legal system proficiency. If you want to develop toward a chief-level legal specialist, the NLSO track is the more direct path.…
Q06What's next after E4 for a LN (Legalman) in the Navy?
LN2 (E-5) is the first rank where you own a section of the caseload rather than a piece of it.
Q07What manuals and regulations does a E4 LN need to know cold?
UCMJ, 10 USC Ch. 47 — fluent in the punitive articles most relevant to your caseload (Arts. 80, 86, 91, 92, 107, 120 series, 128, 134) and the rights advisement process.; MCM, current edition — Rules for Courts-Martial (RCM) and Military Rules of Evidence (MRE); you process the paperwork these govern.; JAGINST 5800.7 series — JAG Manual; the procedure source you cite when the commanding officer's legal officer asks how the process runs.

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