What Every JAG Should Know

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What Every JAG Should Know!

• Promotions
• Homeland Defense
• Democrat National Convention Lessons Learned
• MAJ Anthony Sciaraffa
• JFHQ-MA

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What Every JAG Should Know!

• Slides are only a guideline
• What do you want to know?
• ASK QUESTIONS
• DISCUSSION DISCUSSION AND MORE DISCUSSION!!

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Promotions

• State promotion vice federal recognition
• State promotes but DA/DAF issues federal
  recognition
• State promotion does not guarantee federal
  recognition
• DA/DAF board selection does not guarantee either
  state promotion or federal recognition

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Promotions

• Governed by ROPMA
• NGR 600-100
• Constructive Time in Grade (TIG)
• Difference between AD and NG constructive credit
• Difference between AD and NG promotion boards

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Promotions

• Unit Vacancy Promotion
• Time in Grade (TIG)
• Minimum TIG
• TIG for Mandatory Boards
• No below the zone DA boards

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Promotions

• For Unit Vacancy fully qualified
• - TIG and Professional Military
  Education (PME)
• For DA/DAF Board - best qualified
• - TIG, PME, OER

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Promotion Recommendations

• For DA board. Do correspondence courses in
  branch immaterial and combat arms subjects
• Achieve at least one federal award per year

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HOMELAND DEFENSE

• New and exciting area of law.
• National Guard JAs are at the forefront of policy
  development
• Title 32 v. State Active Duty
• Dual Hat authority
• Rules for the Use of Force (RUF)

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Homeland Defense

• National Guard JAs at the forefront
• Must creatively mix federal law, state law and
  federal regulations

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Homeland Defense

• We are not first responders
• We augment civil authorities under our own
  command and control
• Be prepared to transition from title 32 to title
  10
• Be prepared to transition to lead agency should
  your governor/legislature declare martial law

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DEMOCRAT NATIONAL CONVENTION (DNC)

• Originally told that the National Guard would
  have a standby role
• National Guard Military Police eventually had a
  primary role
• 24 hour operations in primary hard zone
• Intel collection issues

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DEMOCRAT NATIONAL CONVENTION (DNC)

• JA forward deployed with MP
• JA in JOC 24hrs
• JA on standby with RDF

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HOMELAND DEFENSERULES FOR USE OF FORCE(RUF)

• You are in a quasi-military situation not a
  traditional combat situation
• Think like a cop
• Discard Garden Plot if not federalized
• State law controls
• Less complex fewer mistakes
• Have plug and play rules ready for every
  contingency

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HOMELAND DEFENSERULES FOR USE OF FORCE(RUF)

• Think like an operator
• Train with the operators
• GO TO THE RANGE!!

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TRANSFORMATION

• Old Guard
• Weve always done it this way
• Todays Guard
• Lets do it better!