Military Personnel Law and Administrative Punishment

At MNB Meridian Law, Ltd., we are Veterans aiding active and reserve Service members, to protect their careers and post-military lives against the Government’s increasingly inappropriate and aggressive use of regulations, policies, procedures, and processes. Today, Military Department actions have third and fourth order effects that last an actual lifetime. We are former career Judge Advocates, having held ranks from E-1 to O-6, have more than 100 years of combined service, and have zealously advocated for three sides of the equation as defense, prosecution, and policy makers.

We are compelled to rectify the administrative wrongs military commanders cause Service members who tried their best but may have made a mistake, or even committed misconduct. Progressively, the Military Services are using comparatively excessive punishment for a single act of (alleged) misconduct, resulting in bad evaluations, reprimands, loss of security clearances, non-judicial punishment, and later, administrative separations with negative discharge characterizations, which have life-long impact..

Our attorneys are available to support Service members as they challenge adverse administrative actions and punishments military commanders use to “save” their commands and their careers. We assist with responding to administrative, criminal and inspector general investigations, bad evaluations or other “bad paper”, positive urinalysis, non-judicial punishment, removal of special designations and positions, reprimands, removal from positions, loss of security clearances, titling, and administrative separation boards, as well Medical and Physical Evaluations Boards (MEB, PEB) in the Individual Disability Evaluation System (IDES).

We also support Veterans with post-service records correction requests to accurately preserve each Veteran’s service and ensure their record accurately reflects their service. We assist with discharge upgrades, removal of adverse information, sentencing clemency, Titling removal, post-service requests for medical retirements, officer grade determinations, and correcting retirement grade and authorities, as well as other correction requests.

We can help with:

  • Active-Duty Military Personal Injury Claims
  • Army, Navy, and Air Force Academy and ROTC Disenrollments and Debt Collections
  • Article 138 Complaint Assistance
  • AWOL returns and negotiations
  • Compassionate Reassignment Requests
  • Congressional Investigations and Hearings
  • General and Flag Officer Representation
  • Grade Determination Review Boards
  • MEB/PEB/IDES Financial Counseling and Assistance
  • Military Clemency
  • Military Criminal, Command, Inspector General and Administrative Investigations
  • Military Discharge Review Board Representation
  • Military EO Complaints
  • Military Family Law and Divorce
  • Military Law Enforcement Titling Expungement
  • Military Records Corrections Representation
  • Mobilization Delay and Exemption Request
  • Presidential Pardons
  • USERRA Matters

Contact Us for Assistance

For assistance with a military personnel law or administrative punishment matter, please contact us by calling 215-268-3003 or using the online contact form. With offices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Alexandria, Virginia, MNB Meridian Law serves clients throughout the United States and around the globe.

What We've Done

Former Army Staff Sergeant and a Poor Line of Duty Investigation

An Army Staff Sergeant was involved in a catastrophic motorcycle accident and was left in a significant reduced cognitive state requiring 24-hour in-home nursing care for the remainder of the Soldier’s life. After a poor line of duty investigation, the Soldier’s command determined the Soldier’s accident was Not in the Line of Duty (NLOD) –…

Former Army Specialist with PTSD and “Limited Use”

In March 2003, an Army Specialist suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after participating in the first and only post-9/11 combat parachute jump, into Iraq. Shortly after his return he started to self-medicate with marijuana. He self-reported his PTSD and after pre-treatment urinalysis, the command improperly used the limited-use inf…

Army Soldier Facing Article 15 for Posting Publicly Available Information

An Army Specialist posted a newspaper article on social media, without commenting, about a fellow Soldier arrested for soliciting sex with a minor. The Specialist’s First Sergeant threatened him with non-judicial punishment (Article 15), loss of liberty, extra duty and denied repeated requests for leave due to the Specialist “bullying” the ar…

Federal White Collar Fraud

An Army Reserve officer was indicted on one count of 18 U.S.C. § 641 (stealing) for allegedly filing travel claims (of ~$8,500) for travel the government claimed he did not take in support of his reserve duty. The case was predicated on an Army CID investigation (falsely) establishing the officer lived in the same city as the officer’s duty loca…

Delinquent Federal Taxes.

A widow who, with her deceased husband, owned two businesses. Over the course of several years, the accountant retained by her husband failed to file the business and individual returns for eight years and suddenly died, which resulted in more than $75,000 in unfiled and delinquent taxes, interest, and penalties. Regrettably the husband passed and…
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