CA 408 Article 4

Who may serve on courts-martial.

Article 4

ART. 4. Who may serve on courts-martial.—All officers in active duty in the Army shall be competent to serve on courts-martial for the trial of any person who may lawfully be brought before such courts for trial. When appointing courts-martial, the appointing authority shall detail as members thereof those officers of the command who, in his opinion, are best qualified for the duty by reason of age., training, experience, and judicial temperament ; and officers having less than two years' service shall not, if it can be avoided without manifest injury to the service, be appointed as members of courts-martial in excess of the minority membership thereof.

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