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

Army Reserve Administrative Separation

The Army initiated administrative separation after a reserve officer, with 18 years of service, was issued a letter of reprimand for advertising his business wearing a de-identified Army combat uniform and mentioning his Army reserve status. During the administrative separation board, the Government tried to introduce additional alleged misconduct,…

Grade Determination

A senior Department of Defense officer received a reprimand for an administrative error. After the reprimand was filed in their official military personnel file, the officer submitted for retirement. The Secretary concerned placed the officer’s file before a grade determination review board. The retired grade of any rear admiral or major general…

Navy Sailor’s Other Than Honorable Discharge Upgraded

A former Army Soldier was discharged in 1986 with an other than honorable characterization after attacking a foreign civilian during a psychotic event. Despite 6-months of inpatient treatment for schizophrenia after the incident, the Army preferred charges for the attack. On the advice of and through counsel and despite of his debilitated mental st…

Civil Litigation

A trucking company took one of its trucks to a repair facility to have computer diagnostics of the truck’s engine. The repair facility recommended $6,000 in repairs, but the company declined the repairs four times. However, the repair facility sought “permission” from the driver-employee and made the repairs anyway. While test driving the tru…

Navy Sailor’s General Discharge and Reenlistment Code Upgraded

A former Navy Sailor was discharged after an administrative separation board that recommended the Sailor be discharged with a General discharge after testing positive on a urinalysis after accidentally ingesting his wife’s ADHD medication. The ADSEP board found that his service up to the positive urinalysis was honorable and had no incidences of…
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