You had it correct pre-edit. The JAGs requires its officers to serve in multiple roles. Generally, they end up doing prosecution, defense, and both sides of civil litigation based on the current needs of their respective branch. Very few JAGs are permitted the opportunity to specialize; generally you have to either be amazing at that particular practice area or be politically connected.
> Generally, they end up doing prosecution, defense, and both sides of civil litigation based on the current needs of their respective branch.
I know that they ended up doing that, and I thought it was a fairly dynamic movement between roles. But the quick research I did indicated judge advocates are assigned to particular offices, and that it while the way roles were divided between various offices was different in each service, the criminal prosecution and defense functions were consistently in different offices, which would suggest that the role changes were more like a change of assignment within the service than different tasks within he same assignment.
But, yeah, I'm going on pretty shallow information there.
