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 Reserve Major Pending Medical Evaluation Board

In 1985, the Major was exposed to radiation from a leaking microwave transmitter. The Officer developed endocrinological disorders and gained more than 100 pounds. He was treated by Army and civilian medical providers over the course of his active and reserve duty statuses, but later discharged due to his weight gain and other factors while pending…

Former Air Force Staff Sergeant Affected by Competing Processes

An Air Force Staff Sergeant was in the initial stages of a Medical Evaluation Board (MEB) to determine if he was medically fit for further military service, when he was identified for removal from the Air Force on a Quality Force Review Board (QFRB). The Staff Sergeant was discharged with an Honorable discharge under the QFRB process and the MEB wa…

Army Paralegal (27D) Proposed Withdrawal of AR 27-1 Certification

The Soldier, an Army paralegal, received a General Officer Memorandum of Reprimand. Pursuant to Army Regulation 27-1, the paralegal was de-certified. MNB Law Attorneys successfully argued the misconduct was unrelated to his status as a paralegal and did not involve conduct of moral turpitude or violence. The Judge Advocate General (TJAG) agreed and…

Former Army Specialist and Medical Evaluation Board

An Army Specialist had a significant history of mental illness including short-term hospitalizations for schizophrenia. The command initiated a Medical Evaluation Board. After the Soldier was found smoking “spice” in the barracks stairwell, Army Criminal Investigation Division and command investigators determined, despite the mental health hist…

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…
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