All a lawyer does is give advice. It takes a commander to implement it. So all you chuckleheads need to be yelling at the JAG's commander who was dumb enough to pass this on.
"All a lawyer does is give advice."
Yeah, so they say. In my experience, if you want to buck the JAG you'd best have a pretty good rationale. Which is more than doable here, unless the commander is lazy or inept. It would seem to me to be easy to explain the concept/reasoning behind HPBT - especially if one was ARMY for cripes sake.