text: Introduction
  This manual establishes a foundation for the Judge Advocate General’s(JAG’s) Corps and judge advocate
  legal services (JALS) personnel to provide principled counsel and mission-focused legal support to the
  operational Army. It establishes an understanding of the roles and responsibilities that JAG Corps personnel
  have both between legal offices at different levels of command and between the legal section and the staff of
  the supported command, all in support of the commander and the Army.FM 3-84 replaces FM 1-04, and it
  includes several substantive changes.
  The JALS includes all personnel under the qualifying authority of The Judge Advocate General (TJAG),
  including uniformed lawyers, legal administrators, and paralegals, as well as civilian attorneys, paralegals,
  legal administrators, and paraprofessionals. The JALS also includes executive-level civilian attorneyswho
  are under the technical supervision of TJAG. The JAG Corps consists of all officers, warrant officers, enlisted
  personnel, and other members of the Army detailed to the JAG Corps.
  The purpose of this manual is to assist commanders and judge advocates in assigning roles and
  responsibilities for legal support in military operations. This manual is not intended to provide detailed
  guidance on every situation that judge advocates will encounter in a deployed environment, whether overseas
  or within the United States. Just as Army leaders and forces must respond to a broad range of threats under
  conditions of uncertainty by exercising operational adaptability to accomplish missions, so too must judge
  advocates.
  Operational adaptability requires JALS personnel to understand the situation in width, depth, and context,
  and then to assist the command by providing sound legal advice and support across the core legal disciplines.
  Every operation is different, and each operation requires its own unique legal support. As such, commanders
  and judge advocates work together to task-organize legal support for operations in a manner consistentwith
  the operational requirements of the commander.
  FM3-84provides doctrine on legal support across the range of operations and the provision of legal support
  in specific types or aspects of operations.
  FM 3-84 contains five chapters and five appendixes.
  Chapter 1discusses the JAG Corps’mission, roles, and principles;introduces core legal competencies and
  legal functions;and examines the role of legal services personnel.
  Chapter 2 summarizes Army operations and provides guidance on their legal support. It addresses the
  importance of multidomain operations, the Army’s contribution of land power to the joint force, and joint
  and multinational operations. The chapter then discusses the Army operational concept, operational
  framework, and Army echelons and units. Finally, the chapter addresses the capabilities, combat power, and
  the operations process and planning that enable the Army to support joint operations.
  Chapter 3 describes where JALS personnel are assigned supporting Army operations, discusses the roles
  and responsibilities of JALS personnel, outlines the primary doctrinal missions of the legal sections, and
  identifies resources necessary to provide legal support at various echelons.
  Chapter 4provides a detailed description of the four legal functions supporting the Army as an institution.
  They include administrative and civil law, contract and fiscal law, military justice, and national security law.
  Chapter 5 discusses the core legal competency of providing legal support to Soldiers and Families and its
  subordinate legal functions and tasks. This chapter covers these topics with a focus on legal support during
  large-scale combat operations, rear detachment operations, and maintaining installation services.
  Appendix Adiscusses the structure and organization of legal support within the Army Reserve.
  Appendix Bdescribes legal support to the operational Army within the Army National Guard.
  Appendix Cprovides a format for Tab C (Legal Support), Appendix 2 (Personnel Service Support), to Annex
  F (Sustainment) for Army operation orders.
  Appendix Ddiscusses legal running estimates.
  Appendix Eupdates the rules of allocation for legal support to operations.
  This manual recognizes the continued increase in individual and small team operations for judge advocates
  as they supportmultiple command posts, specialized operational cells, and headquarters required to run