JAG
Pentagon's legal corps
JAG stands for Judge Advocate General, the senior legal officer in a branch of the U.S. military.
JAG officers handle military law, courts-martial, and legal assistance.
The term gained wider recognition through the television series of the same name: She served as a JAG lawyer for ten years. (Lowercase jag means a sharp point or a spree.)
Armed forces judicial proceeding
- tribunalJudicial decision-making body
- prosecutionPursuing legal charges
- defenseProtection against harm
- disciplinaryRelated to enforcing rules
advocacy · command · authority · regulations · enforcement · courts-martial
court-martial
Armed forces judicial proceeding
- tribunalJudicial decision-making body
- prosecutionPursuing legal charges
- defenseProtection against harm
disciplinary · advocacy · command · authority · regulations · enforcement · courts-martial
- TV showsTV shows, sitcom, The Office, cartoon, Modern Family
- Legal DramasThe Good Wife, The Good Fight, Boston Legal, LA Law, Perry Mason
- military jobssoldier, infantryman, marine, sailor, combat medic
- Military TV/FilmMASH, Band of Brothers, The Pacific, NCIS, China Beach
- Military AcronymsAWOL, MIA, KIA, POW, NCO
- military bureausPentagon, NSA, CIA, DOD, defense department
JAGcivil courts
Courts handling private disputes
civil court · criminal courts · state courts · state court · federal courts
JAGmoderation
Avoidance of excess
restraint · sobriety · temperance · abstinence · self-control
- crying jagUncontrolled prolonged sobbing episode
- jagged linesMarks with sharp angles
- jagged peaksIrregular pointed mountaintops
- Jagged Little Pill1995 debut alternative rock album