WHAT ARE THE RANK AND PAY OF A NEW OFFICER IN THE NAVY JAG CORPS?
Attorneys entering the Navy JAG Corps via the Direct Appointment (DA) Program are appointed as lieutenants junior grade, pay grade O-2 (See paragraph #23 below for description of DA Program.) They may expect promotion to lieutenant, paygrade O-3, approximately one year after they begin extended active duty. Individuals who enter through the JAG Corps Student Program (SP) will be commissioned as ensigns. (See paragraph #23 below for description of SP Program.) If they join in law school and participate in the JAG Corps Student Program for more than two years, they will be eligible for promotion to lieutenant junior grade while still in school. In any event, they will be promoted to lieutenant junior grade at the time they accept superseding appointments in the Navy JAG Corps to designator 2505, at which time they leave the SP rolls. Participants in the Student Program are eligible for superseding appointment to lieutenant junior grade when they commence extended active duty after having
