UCMJ Article 117a: Wrongful Broadcast or Distribution of Intimate Visual Images
Article 117a punishes knowingly sharing an intimate image of an identifiable adult who did not explicitly consent to the sharing, when the sharer knew or should…
UCMJ Article 121: Larceny and Wrongful Appropriation
Larceny and wrongful appropriation share the same act, wrongfully taking, obtaining, or withholding property, and differ only in intent. Larceny requires intent to deprive the owner…
UCMJ Article 119a: Death or Injury of an Unborn Child
Article 119a makes it a separate offense to cause the death of, or bodily injury to, an unborn child while committing one of eight listed offenses…
UCMJ Article 120b: Rape and Sexual Assault of a Child
Article 120b covers sexual offenses against a child, which the statute defines as anyone under 16. Rape of a child is punishable by confinement for life…
UCMJ Article 100: Subordinate Compelling Surrender
Article 100 punishes a subordinate who compels, or attempts to compel, a commander to give up a place, vessel, aircraft, military property, or body of troops…
UCMJ Article 83: Malingering
Malingering is pretending to be sick or unfit, or deliberately injuring oneself, in order to avoid work, duty, or service. The purpose is the offense: a…
UCMJ Article 108: Military Property of the United States: Loss, Damage, Destruction, or Wrongful Disposition
Article 108 punishes selling or disposing of military property without authority, and damaging, destroying, losing, or allowing harm to it, willfully or through neglect. The maximum…
UCMJ Article 88: Contempt Toward Officials
Article 88 applies only to commissioned officers, and only to contemptuous words, not criticism, against a fixed list of civilian officials: the President, the Vice President,…
UCMJ Article 122a: Receiving Stolen Property
Article 122a punishes wrongfully receiving, buying, or concealing property that was in fact stolen, by someone who actually knew it was stolen. Suspicion, or a finding…
UCMJ Article 126: Arson
Article 126 covers three offenses: aggravated arson, which endangers human life by burning an inhabited dwelling or a structure the accused knows is occupied; simple arson,…
UCMJ Article 127: Extortion
Extortion is communicating a threat to another person with the intent to unlawfully obtain something of value, or an acquittance, advantage, or immunity. The offense is…
UCMJ Article 87b: Offenses Against Correctional Custody and Restriction
Article 87b covers three ways of defying a low-level restraint: escaping from correctional custody (dishonorable discharge, 1 year), breaching correctional custody (bad-conduct discharge, 6 months), and…
UCMJ Article 120c: Other Sexual Misconduct
Article 120c covers five offenses that involve no sexual act or contact by the accused on the victim: indecent viewing, indecent recording, broadcasting or distributing an…
UCMJ Article 115: Communicating Threats
Article 115 makes three kinds of threat a crime: a wrongful threat to injure another's person, property, or reputation; a wrongful threat to cause injury with…
UCMJ Article 82: Solicitation
Soliciting someone to commit almost any UCMJ offense carries a fixed ceiling: dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and 10 years of confinement, or…
UCMJ Article 134: Straggling
Straggling is wrongfully wandering away from, or lagging behind, one's organization during a march, maneuvers, or a similar exercise. It is an enumerated Article 134 offense…
UCMJ Article 121a: Fraudulent Use of Credit Cards, Debit Cards, and Other Access Devices
Article 121a punishes knowingly using a stolen, invalid, or unauthorized credit card, debit card, or other access device, with intent to defraud, to obtain money, property,…
UCMJ Article 101: Improper Use of Countersign
Article 101 makes it a capital offense, in time of war, to disclose the parole or countersign to someone not entitled to it, or to give…
UCMJ Article 79: Conviction of Offense Charged, Lesser Included Offenses, and Attempts
Article 79 is not an offense. It tells a court-martial what it may find an accused guilty of: the offense charged, a lesser included offense, an…
UCMJ Article 78: Accessory After the Fact
An accessory after the fact is someone who, knowing that another person committed an offense, receives, comforts, or assists that person in order to hinder or…
UCMJ Article 87: Missing Movement and Jumping from Vessel
Article 87 has two offenses. Missing the movement of a ship, aircraft, or unit one is required to move with carries a dishonorable discharge and 2…
UCMJ Article 116: Riot or Breach of Peace
Article 116 punishes anyone who "causes or participates in any riot or breach of the peace." A riot needs at least three people acting together in…
UCMJ Article 128a: Maiming
Maiming is an injury that seriously disfigures, destroys or disables a member or organ, or seriously diminishes physical vigor, inflicted with an intent to cause some…
UCMJ Article 80: Attempts
An attempt under Article 80 borrows the maximum punishment of the offense attempted, with two hard limits: no death sentence, and no confinement beyond 20 years…