text: Judge Advocate General’s Corps
  1-7. The legal support to soldiers and family memberscompetency encompasses all legal services provided
  to Soldiersand Family members. It includesthe legal functions of Soldier and Family legal services and trial
  defense service (TDS).
  Table 1-1. Core legal competencies, legal functions, and legal tasks
  Core Legal Competency Core Legal Competency
  Legal Support to the Army Legal Support to Soldiers and Family
  Members
  Legal Function:Administrative and Civil Law Legal Function:Soldier and Family Legal
  Legal tasks: Services
  (cid:120) Environmental law Legal tasks:
  (cid:120) Claims by Soldiers and Department of the
  (cid:120) General statutory, regulatory, and policy compliance
  Army Civilians
  (cid:120) Government ethics and standards of conduct
  (cid:120) Medical evaluation and disability law
  (cid:120) Investigations
  (cid:120) Soldier and Family legal assistance
  (cid:120) Labor law
  (cid:120) Special victims counsel program
  (cid:120) Army institutional claims
  (cid:120) Real property law
  (cid:120) Civil litigation support
  Legal Function:Contract and Fiscal Law
  Legal tasks:
  (cid:120) Fiscal law
  (cid:120) Contract law
  Legal Function:Military Justice Legal Function:Trial Defense Service
  Legal tasks: Legal tasks:
  (cid:120) Courts-martial (cid:120) Courts-martial
  (cid:120) Adverse administrative actions (cid:120) Adverse administrative actions
  (cid:120) Nonjudicial punishment (cid:120) Nonjudicial punishment
  Legal Function:National Security Law
  Legal tasks:
  (cid:120) U.S. domestic national security law
  (cid:120) Cyberspace law
  (cid:120) Intelligence law
  (cid:120) International law
  (cid:120) Operational law
  (cid:120) Security cooperation
  (cid:120) Joint and multinational operations
  (cid:120) Space operations
  ROLES OF JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL’S LEGAL SERVICES
  PERSONNEL
  1-8. JALS personnel fulfill important legal roles. These roles include judge advocate, legal administrator,
  paralegal soldier, civilian attorney, and civilian paraprofessional. These roles are discussed in paragraphs 1-9
  through 1-14.
  JUDGE ADVOCATE
  1-9. No matter the level of command to which they are assigned, judge advocates have several roles. They
  can be counselors, advocates, and trusted advisors to commanders, staffs, individual Soldiers, and Family