The Military Law Task Force advocates through the law for servicemembers and veterans.
Providing independent legal information and services to lawyers and legal workers, active-duty servicemembers, reservists, veterans and their families since 1969.
The National Lawyers Guild Military Law Task Force includes attorneys, legal workers, law students and “Barracks lawyers” interested in draft, military and veterans issues. It is a standing project of the National Lawyers Guild.
MLTF assists those working on military law issues as well as military law counselors working directly with GIs. It trains and mentors counselors and beginning military law attorneys in all aspects of military law through training materials and direct communication. It tracks changes in military law and policy and publishes a quarterly practictioner’s journal On Watch.
A standing project of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and is not part of, or affiliated with the US military or any other government entity.
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TRANSGENDER BAN UPDATE, JUNE 14, 2019
BY JEFF LAKE The spring of 2019 has seen the implementation of the ban on military service by transgender individuals. What started as a tweet by President Trump in 2017 has now come to be official U.S. military policy. That policy is being challenged and cases...
EX-DIRECTOR OF SELECTIVE SERVICE CALLS FOR END TO DRAFT REGISTRATION
BY EDWARD HASBROUCK Most reporters covering a federal committee reconsidering the draft ignored this headline news, focusing instead on the issue of whether to expand the draft to include women In what could, and perhaps should, be the beginning of the end for draft...
2019 GIRN CONFERENCE REPORT
By James M. Branum The Military Law Task Force has played a key role with the GI Rights Network (GIRN) since its early days, providing assistance for counselors seeking attorney referrals but also providing training and resources to the lay counselors of the...
In Memorium: Kit Anderton
Note from the Editors: We are saddened to report that longtime MLTF member and GI Rights Hotline counselor Kit Anderton passed away in March. Kit made Santa Cruz his home and was a founding member of the hotline node there, as well as a volunteer with local peace and...
Summer 2019 issue of On Watch
Vol. 30 No. 2
Military Equal Opportunity Policy – Air Force Regulations
Department Of Defense Report On Military Sexual Assault
Transgender Ban Update
Ex-Director of Selective Service Calls for End to Draft Registration
2019 GI Rights Network Conference Report
Obituary: Kit Anderton
MLTF files statement opposing draft with the NCMNPS
This statement, representing MLTF’s official position on the Draft, was filed with the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service as part of their public hearing process.