FLEP open for application to all services

The Army Office of The Judge Advocate General in Washington, D.C., is now accepting applications for the Army’s Funded Legal Education Program. Under this program, the Army projects sending up to 25 active-duty commissioned officers to law school at government expense. Selected officers will attend law school beginning the fall of 2018 and will remain on active duty while attending law school.

Interested officers should review Army MILPER Message 17-051 and Chapter 10 of Army Regulation 27-1 — The Judge Advocate General’s Funded Legal Education Program — to determine their eligibility. The MILPER Message can be accessed through the Army Judge Advocate Recruiting Office website at https://www.jagcnet.army.mil/JARO#. The Army Funded Legal Education Program is open to commissioned officers in the rank of second lieutenant through captain. Applicants must have at least two, but not more than six, years of total active federal service at the time legal training begins. Eligibility is governed by statute  — 10 U.S.C. section 2004 —  and is nonwaivable.

Eligible officers interested in applying should immediately register for the earliest offering of the Law School Admission Test. Applicants must send their request through command channels, to include the officer’s branch manager at AHRC. Send the original application to the Office of The Judge Advocate General, ATTN: DAJA-PT (ATTN: Ms. Yvonne Caron, Pentagon Room 2B517), 2200 Army Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 20310. Applications must be received by Nov. 1. Submission of the application well in advance of the deadline is advised.

Interested officers should contact their local staff judge advocate for further information. The 21st Theater Sustainment Command Office of the Staff Judge Advocate is located in Building 3004 on Panzer Kaserne in Kaiserslautern. You can reach the office at 484-8335 or
0631-413-8335.