UCMJ Article 120: Rape and Sexual Assault
Article 120 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, codified at 10 U.S.C. 920 and titled "Rape and sexual assault generally," is the principal sexual-offense statute…
What Is a UCMJ Attorney?
A UCMJ attorney is a lawyer who represents service members in matters governed by the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the federal statute that defines the…
UCMJ Article 119a: Death or Injury of an Unborn Child
Article 119a of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, codified at 10 U.S.C. 919a, creates a separate offense when a service member's criminal conduct causes the…
UCMJ Article 80: Attempts
Article 80, codified at 10 U.S.C. 880, is the attempt article of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. It reaches the service member who sets out…
UCMJ Article 104b: Unlawful Enlistment, Appointment, or Separation
Article 104b of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, codified at 10 U.S.C. 904b, punishes a person who brings someone else into the armed forces, or…
UCMJ Article 86: Absence Without Leave
Absence without leave, commonly abbreviated AWOL and called unauthorized absence (UA) in the naval services, is the offense of being where one is not allowed to…
UCMJ Article 81: Conspiracy
Article 81 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, codified at 10 U.S.C. 881, punishes the criminal agreement itself. A service member commits conspiracy when two…
UCMJ Articles 124a and 124b: Bribery and Graft
The integrity of a military decision depends on the decision-maker answering to duty rather than to a paymaster. Two articles of the Uniform Code of Military…
UCMJ Article 117a: Wrongful Broadcast or Distribution of Intimate Visual Images
Article 117a of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, codified at 10 U.S.C. 917a, is the military offense most often described in plain language as the…
UCMJ Article 122a: Receiving Stolen Property
Theft is rarely a single act. Stolen goods have to go somewhere, and a market of buyers, fences, and storage points is what makes property crime…
UCMJ Article 111: Leaving the Scene of a Vehicle Accident
Article 111 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice makes it a punitive offense for a service member to drive away from a vehicle accident that…
UCMJ Article 106: Impersonation of Officer, Noncommissioned or Petty Officer, or Agent or Official
Rank in the armed forces is a claim on obedience. When a sergeant gives an order or an officer demands access to a secure area, the…
UCMJ Article 95a: Disrespect Toward a Sentinel or Lookout
A sentinel or lookout stands at the point where a unit's security depends on one person staying alert and in control of a post. The law…
UCMJ Article 126: Arson
Setting a fire is rarely a single legal event. The same act can be a property crime, a threat to human life, or a tool of…
UCMJ Article 114: Endangerment Offenses
Article 114 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, codified at 10 U.S.C. 914, is the dedicated statute for conduct that creates serious danger to others,…
UCMJ Article 104a: Fraudulent Enlistment, Appointment, or Separation
Article 104a of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, codified at 10 U.S.C. 904a, punishes a person who lies or hides a disqualifying fact in order…
UCMJ Article 104: Public Records Offenses
Military administration runs on records. Personnel files, medical histories, investigative reports, financial documents, operational logs, and maintenance entries are the institutional memory that decisions about careers,…
UCMJ Article 128b: Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is the military offense of committing, or threatening, violence against a spouse, an intimate partner, a dating partner, or an immediate family member. It…
UCMJ Article 122: Robbery
Robbery occupies a distinct place among the property offenses of the Uniform Code of Military Justice because it is not really a property offense alone. Codified…
UCMJ Article 91: Insubordinate Conduct Toward Warrant Officer, NCO, or Petty Officer
Article 91 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice protects the authority of the enlisted and warrant leadership that runs the day-to-day military: the warrant officers,…
UCMJ Article 129: Burglary and Unlawful Entry
Forced entry into another person's space sits at the intersection of two harms: the violation of a protected place and the criminal purpose that animates the…
UCMJ Article 119b: Child Endangerment
Child endangerment in the military justice system reaches conduct that exposes a child to a serious risk of harm, whether or not any harm ultimately occurs.…
UCMJ Article 128: Assault
Assault is among the most frequently charged offenses in the military justice system, and Article 128 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice is where the…
UCMJ Article 110: Improper Hazarding of a Vessel or Aircraft
Few offenses in the Uniform Code of Military Justice carry the weight of Article 110. It is one of the small handful of UCMJ provisions for…
UCMJ Article 133: Conduct Unbecoming an Officer
Article 133 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice is the offense that holds commissioned officers to a standard of personal honor that has no exact…