The costs (not including time) in prosecuting legal cases would break almost any soldier or his/her family. Yet, the military prosecutors and their costs come out of the military budget.
Why can’t there be a fund in that same military budget that would afford the charged soldier to retain independent competent legal assistance? Our soldiers deserve to go into a court battle armed and funded as well as the ‘enemy.’
In the Army, anyway, there is. The Trial Defense Service is separately funded and supervised from the (prosecuting) Trial Counsels.