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On June 20th: 1924-Audie Murphy, recipient of the Medal of Honor and the United States' most decorated Soldier of World War II, is born in Kingston, Texas. On June 21st: 1788-The United States Constitution comes into effect as New Hampshire becomes the ninth State to ratify the document. On June 22nd: 1945-Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet On the Western Front, is born in the German city of Osnabruck. On June 23rd: 1812-Marine Lieutenant John...read more
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On June 13th: 1777-The 19-year old French nobleman, the Marquis de Lafayette, arrives in South Carolina to aid the colonist's cause in the American Revolution. Lafayette, who volunteers to fight in the patriot cause without pay, fights alongside American troops and suffers with them through the long winter at Valley Forge. On June 14th: 1775-The Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, gives birth to the United States Army when it authorizes...read more
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On June 6th: 1944-The D-Day invasion begins as thousands of Allied forces storm the beaches at Normandy while Allied paratroopers and paragliders fill the skies over the Normandy region. On June 7th: 1776-Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposes a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence declaring independence from Great Britain to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On June 8th: 1995-United States Marines rescue Air Force Captain Scott...read more
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On May 30th: 1958-With President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon looking on, unidentified Soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean War are buried at Arlington National Cemetery in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. On May 31st: 1819-American poet Walt Whitman is born. On June 1st: 1813-Navy Captain James Lawrence, Commander of the frigate Chesapeake, upon being mortally wounded utters the famous words which would become the Navy...read more
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Last week, our office traveled on a staff ride to what is perhaps the most well-known Civil War battle site, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The staff ride is a military custom and training tecnique whereby lessons from history can be used and applied to the future. Staff rides have been traditionally used to train military officers by studying historical battles. Doubtless, staff rides have been used by generations of warriors. In the late 19th century, the German Army used the...read more
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On May 23rd: 1900-Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Civil War on July 18, 1863 as part of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry. Sergeant Carney becomes the first African-American to be awarded the nation's highest military honor. On May 24th: 1962-Astronaut Scott Carpenter (United States Navy, Retired) becomes the second American to orbit the Earth as he flies his Aurora 7 spacecraft into orbit. On May 25th:...read more
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On May 16th: 2005-Army Specialist Sabrina Harman was convicted in a court martial at Fort Hood, Texas on six of the seven charges she faced for her role in the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. On May 17th: 1954-The United States Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, declaring that racially segregated schools are inherently unequal. On May 18th: 1969-The Apollo 10 mission with Thomas Stafford (Lieutenant...read more
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On May 9th: 1502-Chrisopher Columbus departed from Cadiz, Spain on his fourth and final trip to the Western Hemisphere. On May 10th: 1865-Union forces capture Confederate President Jefferson Davis at Irwinville, Georgia. On May 11th: 1944-Allied forces launch a major offensive push in central Italy during the Second World War. On May 12th: 1949-The Soviet Union annnounced an end to the Berlin blockade. On May 13th: 1846-In response to President James...read more
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Why Being An Army Lawyer Is One of the Best Jobs a Lawyer Can Have
May 10, 2010
By: Captain Charles Maurer
Last week, one of my colleagues, CPT Sonny Carpenter, and I traveled to Arlington, Virginia for three days of legal training sponsored by the Trial Counsel Assistance Program, or TCAP. TCAP has the mission of providing assistance, resources and support for the legal prosecution function in the Army and serves as a source of resolution of problems encountered by Army trial counsel attorneys. Trial Counsel is the term used by the U.S. Army for its criminal prosecutors. Army...read more
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On May 2nd: 1863-Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson is accidentally wounded by his own Soldiers at Chancellorsville, Virginia during the Civil War. General Jackson dies of his wounds eight days later. On May 3rd: 2005-Iraq's first democratically elected government is sworn into office. On May 4th: 2006-A federal judge sentences Zacarias Moussaoui to life in prison after being convicted because of his role in the September 11th terrorist...read more
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Charles Maurer
| Affiliation: | Active Duty |
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| Rank: | Captain |
| Branch: | Judge Advocate General |
| MOS/AOC: | 27A Judge Advocate |
| Location: | Fort Lee, VA |
| Hometown: | Pottsville |
About Me: I am looking forward to offering what will hopefully prove to be a somewhat unique perspective on Army life as I have been a Soldier in two somewhat different eras. I initially entered active duty with the US Army in the summer of 1988 and served as a parachute rigger in the 82nd Airborne Division, including service in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. I left the Army shortly after returning from the Persian Gulf War and after an absence of approximately seventeen years, I returned to the Army as a lawyer in the summer of 2008, nearly twenty years after my first enlistment.
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