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Military justice: actions needed to help ensure success of judge advocate career reforms : report to the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives / United States Government Accountability Office.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Government Accountability Office, author, issuing body.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Armed Forces--Personnel management.
- United States.
- Judge advocates--United States.
- Judge advocates.
- Courts-martial and courts of inquiry--United States.
- Courts-martial and courts of inquiry.
- Military law--United States.
- Military law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ii, 64 pages) : color illustration
- Other Title:
- Actions needed to help ensure success of Judge Advocate career reforms
- GAO-24-106165 Military justice
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, 2024.
- Summary:
- The military justice system depends on skilled and experienced litigators to try cases involving military personnel. However, DOD and a congressional committee have recently raised concerns about litigators' skills, qualifications, and career management, and whether they are sufficient to handle highly complex cases, such as sexual assault cases. This report examines the extent to which the services have (1) implemented military justice career paths, (2) established experience standards for litigation positions, and (3) established mechanisms to determine the effectiveness of the career paths. GAO reviewed guidance, analyzed program documentation, and interviewed service officials as well as litigators at a nongeneralizable sample of four military installations. GAO is making 35 recommendations, including that DOD and the military services develop and implement a strategy to communicate the military justice career paths, assess the need for experience standards for key litigation positions, and develop an approach for evaluating career path effectiveness.
- Contents:
- Background
- Military justice career paths face implementation challenges and risk failing short of achieving objectives
- The services do not periodically evaluate existing experience standards and have not assessed the need for standards for other key positions
- Several issues limit the services' ability to determine effectiveness of military justice career paths
- Conclusions
- Recommendations for executive action
- Agency comments and our evaluation
- Appendices.
- Notes:
- "May 2024."
- "GAO-24-106165."
- In scope of the U.S. Government Publishing Office Catalog and Indexing Program (C&I) and Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (GAO, viewed May 4, 2024).
- OCLC:
- 1432609924
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