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Military Justice: Actions Needed to Help Ensure Success of Judge Advocate Career Reforms

GAO-24-106165
Brenda S. Farrell
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20 Open Recommendations
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that the Army Judge Advocate General issues guidance requiring a periodic evaluation of professional experience standards for Army military justice litigation positions. (Recommendation 14)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Navy Judge Advocate General issues guidance requiring periodic evaluation of professional experience standards for Navy military justice litigation positions. (Recommendation 15)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Staff Judge Advocate to the Commandant of the Marine Corps issues guidance requiring a periodic evaluation of professional experience standards for Marine Corps military justice litigation positions. (Recommendation 16)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force Judge Advocate General issues guidance requiring a periodic evaluation of professional experience standards for Air Force military justice litigation positions. (Recommendation 17)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that the Army Judge Advocate General assesses the need for experience standards tailored to the responsibilities of individual Army military justice litigation positions, such as supervisory litigation positions and defense counsel, and implements any recommendations from the assessment. (Recommendation 18)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Navy Judge Advocate General assesses the need for experience standards tailored to the responsibilities of individual Navy military justice litigation positions, such as supervisory litigation positions and defense counsel, and implements any recommendations from the assessment. (Recommendation 19)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Staff Judge Advocate to the Commandant of the Marine Corps assesses the need for experience standards tailored to the responsibilities of individual Marine Corps military justice litigation positions, such as supervisory litigation positions and defense counsel, and implements any recommendations from the assessment. (Recommendation 20)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force Judge Advocate General assesses the need for experience standards tailored to the responsibilities of individual Air Force military justice litigation positions, such as supervisory litigation positions and defense counsel, and implements any recommendations from the assessment. (Recommendation 21)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that the Army Judge Advocate General collects information on retention rates of participants in the Army's military justice career path and considers including such information in the Army's annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 22)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Navy Judge Advocate General collects information on retention rates of participants in the Navy's military justice career path and considers including such information in the Navy's annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 23)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Deputy Commandant, Manpower and Reserve Affairs collects information on retention rates of participants in the Marine Corps' military justice career path and considers including such information in the Marine Corps' annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 24)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force Judge Advocate General collects information on retention rates of participants in the Air Force's military justice career path and considers including such information in the Air Force's annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 25)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that the Army Judge Advocate General develops a process to systematically collect information on the reasons Army military justice litigators separate from service, such as by adapting its existing judge advocate exit survey process to include a mechanism for identifying litigators, and considers including such information in the Army's annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 26)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Navy Judge Advocate General develops a process to systematically collect information on the reasons Navy military justice litigators separate from service, such as by adapting its existing service-wide exit survey process to include a mechanism for identifying litigators, and considers including such information in the Navy's annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 27)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Deputy Commandant, Manpower and Reserve Affairs, in conjunction with the Commanding General, Training and Education Command develops a process to systematically collect information on the reasons Marine Corps military justice litigators separate from service, such as by adapting its existing judge advocate exit survey process to include a mechanism for identifying litigators, and considers including such information in the Marine Corps' annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 28)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Commander, Air Force Personnel Center, in conjunction with the Air Force Judge Advocate General, develops a process to systematically collect information on the reasons Air Force military justice litigators separate from service, such as by adapting its existing service-wide exit survey processes to include a mechanism for identifying litigators, and considers including such information in the Air Force's annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 29)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that the Army Judge Advocate General collects and maintains staffing data on actual staff assigned to litigation positions compared to authorized positions and considers including such information in the Army's annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 30)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Navy Judge Advocate General collects and maintains staffing data on actual Navy staff assigned to litigation positions compared to authorized positions and considers including such information in the Navy's annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 31)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Deputy Commandant, Manpower and Reserve Affairs, in conjunction with the Staff Judge Advocate to the Commandant of the Marine Corps, collects and maintains staffing data on actual Marine Corps staff assigned to litigation positions compared to authorized positions and considers including such information in the Marine Corps' annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 32)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force Judge Advocate General collects and maintains staffing data on actual staff assigned to litigation positions compared to authorized positions and considers including such information in the Air Force's annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 33)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
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