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COUNSELING
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Turning 18?
Young men turning 18 are required to register with the Selective
Service System. The failure to do so can result in denial of student
financial assistance, denial of federal employment, denial of
employment by state governments and, in rare situations, criminal
prosecution. Learn about your rights and responsibilities by
attending one of our counseling sessions.
Already
Signed Up in the Delayed Enlistment Program? Many young
people are persuaded by military recruiters to enter the Delayed
Enlistment Program. Once you sign-up, military recruiters tell
you that you can’t get out. This is incorrect. Learn the
“no hassle” way out of the Delayed Enlistment Program by attending one
of our counseling sessions.
In the
Military and Need Help? If you are serving our country in
the
Armed Services, you have a variety of legal rights that the military
doesn’t
tell you about. Attend one of our counseling sessions to find out
if you qualify as a conscientious objector, get help with a discharge,
obtain information about AWOL consequences, or get answers to any
other questions.
Counseling
Locations and Times
Los Angeles -- Fourth
Tuesday of Each Month:
National
Lawyers Guild/Los
Angeles Chapter Office
8124 West Third Street, Los Angeles 90048
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Counseling Available at Other Times on Request by telephoning
(323)
653-6671.
PLEASE CALL
TO LET US KNOW YOU ARE COMING.
Orange County - Email
nlginoc@gmail.com or call our dedicated line at 714-649-0501
RESOURCES
Forms and Other
Information: The NLG/LA Chapter is in the process of
assembling forms and other information. We have put together a
document that sets forth the required questions that members of the
Armed Services must answer to file for Conscientious Objector
status. Each branch of the services has slightly different
questions. These questions can be found in "REQUIRED QUESTIONS
FOR CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR APPLICATIONS
FOR MEMBERS OF THE ARMED SERVICES." Please select the format you
want below:
The NLG's Military Law Task
Force: The Military Law
Task Force (MLTF) is a national committee of the Guild composed of
attorneys, law students, legal workers (paralegals), jailhouse lawyers,
and draft and military counselors (lay advocates) who work on issues of
military law and policy. It
coordinates the Guild's draft, military, veterans and anti-militarist
work. A variety of resources are available on the MLTF's
website (www.nlgmltf.org).
The Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO): The
CCCO website contains a wealth of information about the draft, delayed
entry enlistments, and other military issues (www.objector.org).
Its GI Rights Hotline (1-800-394-9544) provides valuable information to
members of the Armed Forces. It maintains a list of applicable
regulations on a variety of military discharge topics (www.objector.org/helpingout/military-regulations.html).
The links to some of CCCO's key publications:
Military Law: The Army's Judge Advocate General's website
has
valuable information for military law practitioners
(https://www.jagcnet.army.mil/).
In particular, its e-J.A.W.S.
(Electronic Judge Advocate Warfighting System Resource Digital Library)
has numerous publications (https://www.jagcnet.army.mil/eJAWS).
You can find the Manual on Court- Martial (2005) and numerous deskbooks
and training manuals as well as a gateway to Army and Department of
Defense regulations and other
publications. Information can also be obtained from other
military websites: Navy (http://www.jag.navy.mil/JAGTools/JAGTools3.htm);
Air Force (http://hqja.jag.af.mil/);
Marines (http://sja.hqmc.usmc.mil/); and
Coast Guard (http://www.uscg.mil/legal/mj/).
Service supplements to the Manual on Court-Martial can be found
at the following links:
Military Appellate Courts decisions can be obtained
on-line and published decisions are reported in the Military Justice
Reporter:
Military Legal Periodicals: The Army's Judge
Advocate General's School publishes The Military Law Review
quarterly. It also publishes a monthly publication entitled The Army Lawyer.
The Air Force Law Review is published by
the United States Air Force Judge Advocate General's School. The
Naval Law Review is available through Lexis-Nexis.
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