Promotions to Major, Lieutenant Colonel, and Colonel in the Corps: The History of Separate Boards for Judge Advocate Field Grade Officers

摘要

In March 1976, The Army Lawyer announced that the Secretary of the Army had "approved a separate promotion list for the Judge Advocate General's Corps."1 This was a significant event because, prior to this announcement, every judge advocate field grade officer on active duty, or in the Reserve or Guard, was selected for promotion by the yearly Army Promotion Board-and consequently directly competed for promotion to higher rank with infantry, artillery, armor, engineer, and transportation officers, as well as officers of other Army branches. The story of how that changed-how the Corps obtained the authority to hold its own, separate promotion board-is worth telling.