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Manual for Courts-Martial
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<p> The <i>Manual for Courts-Martial</i> (<i>MCM</i>) is the official guide to the conduct of <a href="/facts/Courts-martial_in_the_United_States/lus7JIVD">courts-martial</a> in the <a href="/facts/United_States_military/NHVsU9Id">United States military</a>. An <a href="/facts/Executive_order_(United_States)/JwJJXBar">Executive Order</a> of the <a href="/facts/President_of_the_United_States/oMsfmLb1">President of the United States</a>, the <i>MCM</i> details and expands on the <a href="/facts/Military_law/Bq3r5mqd">military law</a> established in the statute <a href="/facts/Uniform_Code_of_Military_Justice/y3tTMtPQ">Uniform Code of Military Justice</a> (UCMJ). It gathers both executive orders as well as opinions of said executive orders. The <i>MCM</i> contains five parts plus 22 appendices: </p> <ul><li>Part I is the Preamble, which gives background and <a href="/facts/Jurisdiction/0Kb8hao4">jurisdictional</a> information</li> <li>Part II explains the Rules for Courts-martial (Rules 101 through 1307)</li> <li>Part III lays out the Military Rules of Evidence (Rules 101 through 1103)</li> <li>Part IV sets forth the elements and punishments of offenses (Punitive Articles, paragraphs 101 through 108)</li> <li>Part V provides guidelines for the imposition of <a href="/facts/Non-judicial_punishment/Ctu4mju5">non-judicial punishment</a> (NJP)</li> <li>Appendices provide the <a href="/facts/Constitution_of_the_United_States/AJlEWNR3">Constitution of the United States</a>, the UCMJ itself, analysis of the Parts, historical <a href="/facts/Executive_Order/JwJJXBar">Executive Orders</a>, forms, etc.</li></ul> <p>In June 2019, the <i><a href="/facts/Federal_Register/o373DDfs">Federal Register</a></i> published the 2019 Manual for Courts-Martial with all recent changes. </p>