What do you call a home network of digital devices that control every appliance and function of your domestic routine? If you were to ask Siri (Apple’s virtual assistant), you would get a link to a webpage for the “internet of things” (IoT). In fact, the IoT is proliferating at break-neck speed—invading every aspect of life. 

All judge advocates (JAs) are charged with stewarding our dual profession of legal professionals and Soldiers. Two captains in the Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps are uniquely situated to instill the JAG Corps’s four constants—Principled Counsel, Stewardship, Mastery of the Law, and Servant Leadership—in hundreds of JAs and paralegals as they begin their careers in the Corps. 

In 2015, a six-year-old girl told her mother that she was sexually assaulted by a boy in her American military elementary school in Grafenwoehr, Germany. The girl said that the boy forced kisses on her, penetrated her with his finger, and coaxed her into touching him. The next day, the girl’s father—an Army Soldier—and mother reported the sexual assault.