COMMANDANT'S ANNUAL REPORT 1967 - 1968 The Judge Advocate General's School United States Army Charlottesville, Virginia 'rhe Royal Australian Navy continues to be very grateful to your School [01 its c..;onlinued kindness to our officers, ... the great facilities offered by your School ... [and the] oppOllllnilY of seeing your School and learning something of its distinguished aCc'ulcmic work. TREVOR RApKE The Judge Advocate General of the Naval Forces M "'bourne, A uslraUa 1 again commend the school for ... superior quality . [and] l'erlainly TalC [it] with the best . .. in civilian law. MlLTON G. GERSHENSON Professor of Law Rronklyn '~ n7t' SrililOl r\ ,;cn!iC of order and a sense of ju!)tite are both essential to an erfec..;· live Army. Withollt the former you have rabble; without the latter, a tyranny. The sense of justice is made rcal through the process of rraming ~Ind administering laws adapted Lo the military environment. It is obvious. I.hcrdore. Llull the mission or the .1 AG School is critically important. The JAG School deserves praise [or the manner in which it is ful· filling its mission - - a manner characterized by a high order of excel­ lence and professional integrity. HARDY C. DILLAlU> (ame.s Monroe Professor oj i.am and former Dean University of Virginia Schaal of Law FOREWORD The seventeenth consecutive year of continuous operation of The Judge Advocate General's School in Charlottesville was completed in 1968. This seventh Annual Report for fiscal year 1968, my first as Commandant of The Judge Advocate General's School, has a three-fold purpose: first, to summarize the operation of the School during the past fiscal year; second, to preserve in printed form a record of the School and its personnel; and, third, to describe the various courses of instruc­ tion offered at the School. As service to the Judge Advocate General's Corps is the School's mis­ sion, it is hoped that the Report will acquaint members of the Corps with the services which the School offers. Furthermore, as improvement is often stimulated by suggestions, we hope military lawyers in the field will suggest ways in which the School can be of greater service to the Corps. During my initial year as Commandant, increased emphasis has been placed on liaison between the School and its alumni and reserve judge advocates. Also, due to the ever-increasing importance of international law in the world today, we are intensifying our effort to obtain an in­ creasing number of foreign students in both our Advanced and Basic Courses and our specialized short courses. Through increased relation­ ship with our foreign allies, the School hopes to he a positive factor in improvmg human relations around the world. ii COMMANDANT'S ANNUAL REPORT FISCAL YEAR 1968 Table of Contents Page Section I-History of The Judge Advocate General's School __________ _ Section II-Organization of The Judge Advocate General's School 3 Academic Department ________________________________________________________ 3 Nonresident Training Department __________________________________ 3 Plans and Publications Department ________________________________ 3 Office of the School Secretary ____________________________________________ 5 Board of Visitors __________________________________________________________________ 5 Section III-tAcademic Activities --------------------__________________________________________ 7 General ______________________________________________________ -___________________________ 7 Judge Advocate Officer Advanced Course ________________________ 9 Judge Advocate General Basic Course ____________________________ 13 Procurement Law Course __________________________________________________ 16 Military Justice Course ______________________________________________________ 17 International Law Course __________________________________________________ 17 Civil Law Course __________________________________________________________________ 18 Civil Affairs Law Course ____________________________________________________ 19 Foreign Law Course ____________________________________________________________ 19 Mili tary Affairs Course ___________________________________________ ...___ .____ 19 Judge Advocate Officer (Reserve Component) Course 20 Law in Vietnam Course _____________________________________ . ___ .__________ 20 Judge Advocate General's Corps Officer Orientation Course __________________________________________________________ 20 Law Officer Seminar ___________________________________ ._...._._.....___________ 20 Guest Speaker Program .____ ._________ .. _____ ._ .._.. _. __ ........_____________ 20 Text Preparation Program ._ ..._..... ____ ......._..............._. __ .. ____ 21 iii Thesis Lending Library ______________________________________________________ 21 Foreign Student Informational Program ________________________ 21 Section IV-Nonresident Training ________________________________________________________ 23 General __________________________________________________________________________________ 23 Nonresident Materials Preparation Division ________________ 23 Individual Training and Career Management Division ____________________________________________________ 25 Section V-Plans and Publications ________________________________________________________ 29 General __________________________________________________________________________________ 29 Publications ____________ .______________________________________________________________ 29 Special Activi ties __________________________________________________________________ 31 Section VI-Administration ______________________________________________________________________ 37 General _________________________________________________________________________________ . 37 Facilities of the School ________________________________________________________ 37 Quarters ________________________________________________________________________________ 39 Messing __________________________________________________________________________________ 39 Officers' Open Mess ______________________________________________________________ 39 Bookstore ______________________________________________________________________________ 39 Logistical Support ____________________________________________________..._______ 39 Adjutan1's Office _______'__________________________________________________________ 40 Medical and Dental Facilities _________________________________________ 40 Athletic Facili ties ________________________________________________________________ 41 The Alumni Association ___________________________________________________ 41 Section VII-Combat Developments Command, Judge Advocate Agency ___________________________________________________________ 42 Section VIII-Appendices _________________________________________________________________._________ 43 Appendix I (Organization Chart) _______________________.__________ 43 Apendix II (Organizational Roster of the School) ______ 44 iv Appendix III (Changes in Military Personnel, FY 1968) ____________________________________________________________________________ 46 Appendix IV (Background Statements of Officer Personnel) ____________________________________________________________ 49 Appendix V (FY 1968 Course Cycle Chart) _____ .__________ 57 Appendix VI (Resident Students, FY 1968) __________________ 58 Appendix VII (FY 1969 Course Cycle Chart) ______________ 59 Appendix VIII (Thesis Topics) _______________________ ,______________ 60 Appendix IX (Awards) ____________________________________________________ 66 Appendix X (Guest Speakers) ________________________________________ 68 Appendix XI (Distinguished Visitors) __________________________ 79 Appendix XII (Textbook Program) ______________________________ 80 Appendix XIII (Visits to Reserve Units) ______________________ 82 Appendix XIV (Lectures Outside TJAGSA) ________________ 84 v I\f..\.TOR GE:'-:ERAL KE:'-::'-:ETII J. HODSO"i The I1Idge Adu()('atc Gou'ml, U. S. Army COLONEL KENNETH C. CRAWFORD Commandant The Iudge Aduocate Geneml's School HISTORY OF THE JUDCE ADVOCATE CENERAL'S SCHOOL Although judge advocates have served the United States Army since 1775, no effort was made to provide them with formal training in mili­ tary law until the opening days of the "World War II. In preceding years, newly appointed judge advocates were trained empirically, but the Army's swift expansion soon emphasized the need [or instructing at­ torneys entering the Corps in the manifold aspects of their new specialty. In February 1942, as the uniformed lawyer's burden increased in complexity, specialized and refresher training courses for active duty personnel were commenced at the National University Law School, Washington, D.e. In August 1942, operations were transferred to The Judge Advocate General's School, physically located at the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and commanded by Colonel Edward H. Young, JAGe. In the following months, hundreds of officers were trained at Ann Arbor. By June 1944 over two-thirds of the active duty strength of the Judge Advocate General's Corps were graduates of the School. The end of the war, however, substantially reduced the need for trained military lawyers, and in 1946 the School, which had been initiated only on a temporary basis, was discontinued. Nevertheless, plans were soon being devised in the Office of The Judge Advocate General to implement the recommendation of a com­ mittee, appointed in 1946 to study the administration of military justice, that provision