What Is an Army JAG?
An Army Judge Advocate General (JAG) is generally understood to mean a member of the U.S. Army’s JAG corps, the legal arm of that branch of military service. In the strictest sense, JAG in the Army refers only to one person, the Judge Advocate General of the Army, who is the officer in command of the Army’s JAG corps worldwide. Members of the Army JAG corps are typically attorneys who are commissioned officers and paralegal assistants who are in the enlisted ranks. They provide a wide range of legal services for members of the Army around the globe, in addition to representing the service in legal cases and serving as prosecutors and defense counsel in courts-martial, or military trials.
