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Legal Office
The Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, located at Building 2300 on the second floor, provides legal assistance to active-duty, reserve component on orders or pending deployment, retired military members and their military identification card-eligible dependents. This assistance includes wills, powers of attorney, and other personal civil legal matters such as landlord/tenant, domestic, and consumer affairs issues. Additionally, we provide legal counsel to commanders on all matters affecting the installation and the mission, including such wide-ranging areas as military justice, administrative actions, ethics, operations law, environmental law, claims, contracts, civil law and labor law.
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The legal office is located on the 2nd floor of the 355th
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Legal Assistance
Powers of Attorney and notary service is available from 0830-1530 Monday through Friday on a walk-in basis. No appointment is needed. Priority is given to military members in uniform from 1100-1300.
Legal assistance is available by appointment Monday through Friday during normal business hours. Active duty members and their dependants may also attend walk-in legal assistance on Friday from 0730 to 0830. Active duty members and/or their dependants who sign in during this time period will be seen by an attorney for legal assistance on a first come, first serve basis.
If you need a power of attorney or a will, please complete a legal worksheet before coming to the legal office. Go to https://aflegalassistance.law.af.mil. On this page, select "Legal Worksheets." Select the appropriate document and complete it on-line. You will be given a ticket number (warning: it is case sensitive).
When you make your will appointment, please give us your ticket number. We will start working on your will before your appointment.
For powers of attorney, bring your ticket number with you to the legal office. With that number, we can pull up your documents right away. Clients with ticket numbers go to the front of the line for powers of attorney.
Legal assistance is available on a priority basis to deploying members. For after-hours assistance, please have your commander or first sergeant contact the on-call JAG through the command post.
For additional information on a wide variety of legal assistance topics, visit https://aflegalassistance.law.af.mil/lass/lass.html.
Claims Assistance
Claims for damage to household goods resulting from DPS shipments are processed using the DoD website www.move.mil. Notice of loss or damage reports for DPS claims must be filed using this website. If you are unhappy with the carrier's settlement offer or your DPS claim is denied by the carrier, please contact the Air Force Claims Service Center (AFCSC) at 1-877-754-1212. The AFCSC is located in Kettering, OH and open 0700-1700 EST. Personnel who were not moved using the DPS system can file using the AFCSC website https://claims.jag.af.mil. Claims for damages to POVs that occur during shipment can also be filed on the AFCSC website.
The base legal office is available to assist claimants with general claims information and questions daily between 0830 and 1600. Please call 228-5242 for assistance.
Military Justice
The Military Justice Division of the Legal Office reviews evidence and provides advice to commanders and first sergeants on appropriate disciplinary and administrative actions ranging from letters of counseling/admonishment/reprimand, Article 15s, and UCMJ actions, to administrative discharges and courts-martial.
Air Force courts-martial are open to the public. The docket of up-coming courts-martial is found at http://www.afjag.af.mil/docket/index.asp.
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355 FW/JA (ACC)
5275 E. Granite St.
Bldg 2300
Davis-Monthan AFB
AZ 85707-3845
DSN: 228-5242
COMM: (520) 228-5242
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Legal Office 