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Headquarters, Department of the Army Department of the Army Pamphlet 27-50-241 December 1992 Table of Contents Memorandum of Law TheLegalityofSnipers ........................................................................................................................................................ ...-._...................................... 3 Articles Recent Property Settlement Issues for Lgal Assistance Attorneys ....................................... ............................................................................................. 4 Caplain Alliron A. Polchek Solid Waste Collectionand Removal: A Messy Situation ........................ .......................................................................................................................... 12 Capfain David W.LaCroir, USAR USALSA Report ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 22 Uniled Stales Amy Legal ServicesAgency The Advocate for MilitaryDefense Counsel DAD Note ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 22 UCMJ Anide 121: Friendly Bornwing Can Evolve into Criminal Taking Clerk of Court Notes ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 24 Court-Martial Processing Times; Posttrial hssing Times Increase lhirty-Seven Percent in Two Years; Help for the Military Justice Section TJAGSA Practice Notes .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 25 Fad@,The Jdge Advocafe General's School . Criminal Law Note .................................................................................................................................... ................................. I........... 25 Military Coun Rejects "Usable Quantity"Rquirement # I Contract Law Note .............................................................. ........................ ..................... ............................... I........ ..."..................:.................._..I..... 26 GSBCA Adopts GAO Review Factors for "InSoope"Modifications hernational LawNo~e......-....!.....-................................ -.................................................................................................................................................... 28 The Role of the Militaryin be , r*".\ Legal Assis!ance Itms .......................................................................................................................................................................................................29 i Tax Notes (Electronic Filing of Tnx Returns; Mortgage Interest Deduction Law Note (Adoption Reimbursement Update); Consumer Law Note (BillwrtchSenate Bill 316: Garnishment of Federal Mvor Benefits Note (Survivor Benefits: Recent S~tutoryChanges) ........... .",I . Claims RepDrf ................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 33 i UnitedSutes Army ClakService Household Goods Recovery Notes (Digests dRecent Canpder Gend.nd GAO Dedrions; Diguu of Dedrions) - Labor and Employment Law Notes .......................................................................................................................................................... ., .".. I .. , , ,. OTJAG bbor o~Emp1qmniLivofue - Labor Relations Notes (Hcane AddresHes-FPM Letter 711-164, Sexual Preference Protection Negotiable; Retroactive Applicsh Qlloctive Bargaining Ag&ent Revisions fs,,Negotiable);Equd Employment opportunity Notes (Niith Circuit Applies Civil Righu Aa , . of 1991 Retroactively; bss of Security Clearance Because of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Does Not RqukTransfer as a Reasonable Accgnmodation); Civilian Personnel Law Nctu (Deduction of OuLtide Eamings Ia A Failure to Comply with m Interim Relicf orda, Aaorncyr' Fees: Mitigation Ian't Always Winningl); Practice Pointer (Gm ule Employees Arc NOT Eligible for En ' . and Training Office Note ....................................... ................."i" .-....."-...-......i........... ............ ' .Pusomel, Plans, und Training Ofice, OTJAG, ., ..\, . i. 1 ., The Amy Management Staff College Professional Responsibility Notes ........... ."...i:." ........:......................... :.... ......................................... 41 OTJAG Slondardr OfConduct Ome Elhical Awareness; Case Summq. Avoiding ti4.s'Alku:he Existence of a La Regimental News From the Desk of the Sergeant Major ....... .......................................... Sergeow Major John A. Nico(ai, , !> Placement service , ' I, . .h 'theField .......................... .................................... ....................... ...................44 . The Effects of Foreign Military Service OII United States Citizenship: A Response to Assirling Soldiers in Immigrufion Mutters; The Second Annual Robinson 0. Evem,Award . 1' CLE News ........................................................................ ............................................... 47 Current Material of Interest ............................................... ............................................ 49 The Army Lawyer-Indexes for 1992 Subject Index .................................................................................. ............................................ 55 Author Index ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 60 Index of Legal Assistana 1-r .................................................................................................................................................................... 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Memorandum of Law- The Legality of Snipers r” Rg &~Wldb?l 1863), also known as the Lieber C t the Army’s use of that remains the law of war today: “Military snipers in combat might violate the la its of all direct destruction of life or limb of ....” This statement does not limit lawful I attacks to persons armed at the moment of the attack, but neralAinternational . includes all hrsons who are combatants. snipers in combat, ’ 5. A sniper’s ability to engage enemy targets at longer ranges than an ‘averagerifleman does not have any bearing on the ion. Enemy combatants are lawful er they may be located, regardless violate the law of war. of the activity in which they are engaged when they are attacked. See, for example, Army Field Manual 27-10, The DATA-IO 29 September 1992 Law of M WMare (1956). In discussing the prohibition