WHAT IS THE NAVY JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERALS (JAG) CORPS?
The Navy Judge Advocate Generals (JAG) Corps is comprised of approximately 750 attorneys who serve as commissioned officers in pay grades ranging from lieutenant junior grade through rear admiral. Navy judge advocates are stationed throughout the continental United States, overseas, and aboard ships. Our diverse responsibilities include the following: a. Advising the Secretary of the Navy, the civilian executive assistants, and the naval professional assistants on matters of law arising within the Department of the Navy, b. Management and implementation of the Navys criminal justice system in accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Navy JAG attorneys serve as prosecutors, defense counsel or presiding judges in criminal trials at courts-martial, appellate advocates and jurists, and advisors to convening authorities; c. Management and implementation of fact-finding bodies over which the Judge Advocate General of the Navy has primary cognizance. Examples are formal investiga
