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 Major (P) and Army Civilian Security Clearance Revocation

The Officer became addicted to opioids after three successive serious injuries over the course of two years. A Second Lieutenant in the Major’s Army civilian office suspected he was “snorting cocaine” at his desk during lunch. Army CID investigated and determined that the Major was taking unprescribed opioids (prescribed but in dosages differ…

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…

Active Duty Titling

An active duty Army major was twice accused of sexual misconduct 10 years prior. Army CID investigated, substantiated the allegations solely on the accuser’s testimony, and titled the officer for sex crimes under Article UCMJ 120. Army prosecutors determined no probable cause existed to believe the officer committed the misconduct. The officer le…

Titling and Retirement

A U.S. Army Reserve prior-enlisted first lieutenant was accused of fraud and taking more than $10,000 in recruiting incentives under G-RAP – the Army National Guard’s illegal recruiting program. The lieutenant was investigated by Army CID, who found “probable cause” to believe he committed fraud. Army CID “shopped” the case to the Army…

Army (Reserve) First Lieutenant Misconduct Filed in the Restricted File

In 2014, an Army First Lieutenant (1LT), married to another Army 1LT (assigned to an OCONUS duty station), engaged in an inappropriate (non-sexual but socially intimate) relationship with the wife of a fellow Army Officer. The 1LT-wife reported her husband and the 1LT-husband was issued a Memorandum of Reprimand (GOMOR) and was honorably discharged…
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