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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 Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force Judge Advocate General develops and implements a strategy to communicate the establishment of and service leadership support for the military justice career path. (Recommendation 3)
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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 issue guidance to require the inclusion of judge advocates with relevant professional experience, such as a participant in the Army's military justice career path, on judge advocate promotion boards. (Recommendation 4)
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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 Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), in conjunction with the Commandant of the Marine Corps, issues guidance to require the inclusion of judge advocates with relevant professional experience, such as a judge advocate with significant military justice experience, on Marine Corps unrestricted officer promotion boards. (Recommendation 5)
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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 issue guidance to require the inclusion of judge advocates with relevant professional experience, such as a participant in the Air Force's military justice career path, on judge advocate promotion boards. (Recommendation 6)
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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 the Army Judge Advocate General issues guidance that addresses the risk that the perishability of litigation skills poses to the use of skill levels for Army litigators, such as specifying the maximum time a recipient may serve in a non-litigation role before the skill level must be reviewed. (Recommendation 7)
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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 the Air Force Judge Advocate General issues guidance that addresses the risk that the perishability of litigation skills poses to the use of skill levels for Air Force litigators, such as specifying the maximum time a recipient may serve in a non-litigation role before the skill level must be reviewed. (Recommendation 8)
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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 issue guidance requiring specified experience requirements for specific positions which litigators must meet for assignment unless the Judge Advocate General documents a waiver for a given situation. (Recommendation 9)
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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 formally evaluates Army policies and procedures governing the use of litigators to help ensure their efficient and effective use. (Recommendation 10)
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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 formally evaluates Navy policies and procedures governing the use of litigators to help ensure their efficient and effective use. (Recommendation 11)
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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 Commandant of the Marine Corps formally evaluates Marine Corps policies and procedures governing the use of litigators to help ensure their efficient and effective use. (Recommendation 12)
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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 formally evaluates Air Force policies and procedures governing the use of litigators to help ensure their efficient and effective use. (Recommendation 13)
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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 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.
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