UCMJ Article 77: Principals
Article 77 does not create a crime. It makes anyone who aids, abets, counsels, commands, or procures an offense, or causes it through another, guilty of…
UCMJ Article 102: Forcing a Safeguard
Forcing a safeguard is any act that violates the protection a commander has placed over enemy or neutral persons, places, or property. The punishment is death…
UCMJ Article 134: The General Article
Article 134 punishes conduct no other UCMJ article covers, in three clauses: disorders and neglects prejudicial to good order and discipline, conduct of a nature to…
UCMJ Article 125: Kidnapping
Kidnapping under the UCMJ is wrongfully seizing, confining, inveigling, decoying, or carrying away another person and then holding that person against his or her will. No…
UCMJ Article 104a: Fraudulent Enlistment, Appointment, or Separation
Article 104a punishes getting into the armed forces, or out of them, by a knowingly false representation or deliberate concealment about one's own qualifications or eligibility.…
UCMJ Article 94: Mutiny and Sedition
Article 94 covers mutiny, sedition, attempted mutiny, and the failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition. All are punishable by death or such other…
UCMJ Article 131a: Subornation of Perjury
Subornation of perjury is inducing and procuring another person to take an oath and testify falsely, and it is complete only if that person actually commits…
UCMJ Article 86: Absence Without Leave
Absence without leave (AWOL, or unauthorized absence) is being away from where duty requires, without authority. No intent is required for the basic offense; the length…
UCMJ Article 111: Leaving the Scene of a Vehicle Accident
Article 111 is the military hit-and-run offense. It punishes a driver who knows the vehicle was in an accident causing injury or property damage and wrongfully…
UCMJ Article 108a: Captured or Abandoned Property
Article 108a imposes a duty before it creates any crime: everyone subject to the UCMJ must secure public property taken from the enemy for the United…
UCMJ Article 107a: Parole Violation
Article 107a makes it a court-martial offense for a person released on parole from confinement after a conviction to violate the conditions of that parole. The…
UCMJ Article 122: Robbery
Robbery is taking anything of value from another person, or from that person's presence, against the person's will, by force or violence or by fear of…
UCMJ Article 106a: Wearing Unauthorized Insignia, Decoration, Badge, Ribbon, Device, or Lapel Button
Article 106a punishes knowingly wearing an insignia, decoration, badge, ribbon, device, or lapel button one is not authorized to wear, on a uniform or on civilian…
What Is a UCMJ Attorney?
"UCMJ attorney" is an informal label, not a license or certification: it describes a lawyer, military or civilian, who represents service members in cases governed by…
UCMJ Article 95a: Disrespect Toward a Sentinel or Lookout
Article 95a punishes wrongful, disrespectful language within a sentinel's or lookout's hearing, or wrongful, disrespectful behavior within their sight, by someone who knows the person is…
UCMJ Article 129: Burglary and Unlawful Entry
Burglary under Article 129 is breaking and entering another's building or structure with intent to commit any UCMJ offense inside, at any hour and in any…
UCMJ Article 114: Endangerment Offenses
Article 114 contains four offenses, reckless endangerment, dueling, willful firearm discharge endangering human life, and carrying a concealed weapon, and the Manual for Courts-Martial gives all…
UCMJ Article 89: Disrespect Toward and Assault of a Superior Commissioned Officer
Article 89 contains two offenses with very different stakes. Disrespect toward a superior commissioned officer carries a bad-conduct discharge and up to 1 year if the…
UCMJ Article 134: Disloyal Statements
Disloyal statements is an enumerated Article 134 offense. It requires a statement, communicated to another person, that is disloyal to the United States as a political…
UCMJ Article 128b: Domestic Violence
Article 128b turns certain offenses into domestic violence when the victim is the accused's spouse, intimate partner, dating partner, or immediate family member. For a violent…
UCMJ Article 104: Public Records Offenses
Article 104 punishes willfully and unlawfully altering, concealing, removing, mutilating, obliterating, or destroying a public record, or taking one with intent to do any of those…
UCMJ Article 84: Breach of Medical Quarantine
Breach of medical quarantine is knowingly going beyond the limits of a medical quarantine ordered by someone with authority, before being released. The maximum is a…
UCMJ Article 131g: Wrongful Interference with an Adverse Administrative Proceeding
Article 131g extends obstruction-of-justice protection to administrative actions against service members, such as discharge, reduction in grade, loss of a security clearance, or a bar to…
UCMJ Article 105: Forgery
Forgery is falsely making or altering a signature or writing that, if genuine, would apparently create or change someone's legal liability, or knowingly passing such a…
UCMJ Article 113: Drunken or Reckless Operation of a Vehicle, Aircraft, or Vessel
Article 113 covers drunk, drug-impaired, and reckless operation of any vehicle, aircraft, or vessel, not only cars. A person commits it by operating or being in…