I am a JAG (former active duty/currently USAR). This is nothing new. Every combat arms brigade has an assigned JAG that deploys with the brigade and provides legal advice on military justice and operational law. For the most part, he works out of the Brigade TOC. Just another staff weenie. Under no circumstances does a JAG veto any targeting decision by a commander. The JAG merely makes recommendations and the final call always belongs to the commander.
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Having a JAG guy in a BDE TOC would be new to me, but then again I haven't been in one in many years.
Maybe a permanent JAG presence at that level in the field is evidence of how seriously higher commands are taking things.
Personally, I think it's a little ridiculous that we have to go to war and play lawyer-ball while our enemies are playing rugby, but that's not JAGs fault.
Do you ever find it frustrating that our forces go the extra mile to operate within an ROE designed IAW with the laws of land warfare, but when our enemies are free to brutalize whomever they can catch with little outcry from the broader world? Meanwhile some jokers put panties on some guys' heads and it's Armageddon.