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Navy JAG Assess Future of Force

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Story Number: NNS061018-21
Release Date: 10/18/2006 5:17:00 PM

From Navy Judge Advocate General Public Affairs

WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) has begun a functional review of the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps in October to ensure that the Navy will continue to possess the most effective and efficient JAG Corps now and in the future.

The review will assess the JAG Corps’ business lines, the quantity and quality of current legal services, current force structure, proposed force mix, and will seek ways to optimize the provision of legal services.

“A generation of Sailors and families, as well as our own JAG Corps, will benefit greatly from this effort,” said Capt. Hank Molinengo, assistant judge advocate general for Operations and Management. “Navy leadership is fully behind this effort, and the JAG legal community is equally committed to this comprehensive functional review.”

The review will canvass officer and enlisted, both active and reserve, as well as civilian personnel.

CNA will conduct the assessment in three stages, with the help of working groups formed from members of the JAG Corps. The first stage will define and catalog the myriad services provided by each staff judge advocate, region legal service office and naval legal service office around the world, as well as the Navy/Marine Corps trial judiciary, appellate judiciary and JAG staff.

Next, CNA will determine an optimal JAG Corps force structure and force mix. This assessment will result in a listing of the optimal number of JAG Corps members per location needed to accomplish the JAG Corps’ mission.

Finally, CNA will develop a force structure tradeoff matrix, which will permit the JAG Corps to correlate its overall manning requirements to validated missions.

“The world is changing, and we must be prepared to change with it,” said Molinengo. “We are convinced that this study will provide the foundation necessary for assessing output, requirements, levels of resourcing with associated risk and capabilities, and appropriate force structure and force mix.”