Sorry, some times I just start barking. The answer to that is - in this case - a lifetime.
Check these two links out:
Civilians weren't made aware of protective order for Marine
LINDELL KAY & JENNIFER HLAD
January 13, 2008 - 1:18AM
http://www.jdnews.com/news/weren_54335___article.html/data_made.html
Under Secretary of Defense
March 10, 2004 Memo
Subject: Military Protective Orders
http://www.usmc-mccs.org/victimadv/domestic/MPO%20signed.pdf
That NCIS is trying to weasel out of knowing there was an MPO is, again, beyond low. They just met with Maria about a freaken rape charge, and any idiot would know that in the normal course of human events, one had been issued.
Not to mention she probably told them.
But dead girls tell no tales.
Nothing like walking all over her to save their ass.
Seems like NCIS and the sheriff’s office didn’t share a whole lot of info prior to the family coming to North Carolina and pushing buttons. Either NCIS mismanaged the connection between Maria Lauterbach and her alleged rapist (along with the MPO), or the sheriff’s office bungled it, or both.
Hindsight is 20/20, but it seems obvious that Laurean would be a major interest to the authorities by Dec. 20 when she was determined to be on Unauthorized Absence. Now that they’ve determined she’s dead, they are throwing everything, including the kitchen sink, into finding her suspected killer.
Seems like an MPO would only work if the person to be protected was on base and residing in a barracks.