Law Firm of James M. Branum, PO Box 721411, Oklahoma City, OK (2025)

10/15/2024

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/14/air-force-academy-grad-deconstructs-a-military-mindset/

I am very proud to share this op-ed written by one of my clients, a USAF officer who has applied for status.

Somewhere around the age of 20, I sat in a large auditorium at the United States Air Force Academy with a thousand other cadets and cheered at footage of real drone strikes on real people, laughing along with everyone else as we watched little, pixelated figures run for cover that we all knew was fu...

06/22/2024

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/us-military-members-conscientious-objector-status-israel-gaza-war-rcna158265

Two of my very brave clients spoke to NBC News about their conscientious objection to war, as well as about their specific objections about what is happening in Gaza right now.

Tagging: Veterans For Peace, About Face: Veterans Against the War, Center on Conscience & War, Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild, Imam Imad Enchassi

Two Air Force enlistees are requesting to become conscientious objectors over U.S. support of Israel, a decision they said was emboldened by the ongoing war in Gaza.

03/14/2024

Just a reminder - please consider signing this petition if you haven't already.

This is not just another random petition, but rather will have some practical effects since it will be submitted as part of Lavender Leto's application to BCNR (Board of Corrections of Naval Records) but also will be submitted to members of Congress, DoD, and the POTUS.

https://nlgmltf.org/military-law/2024/petition-launched-to-support-survivor-of-military-recruiter-abuse/

We are sharing this petition from our friends at Courage to Resist. —————————————————————————————————————– To sign the petition – click here. Lavender Gunderson, a survivor of military recruiter sexual abuse, is seeking di...

03/09/2024

I have to brag.

I got an LTE published by the Washington Post!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/08/nationals-keibert-ruiz-riley-adams-catchers-caption/

Excerpt: When it’s right for service members to exercise this right
The Feb. 27 Metro article “Who was the U.S. airman who burned to death in protest?” stated, “U.S. service members are prohibited from acts of political protest, under the Pentagon’s long-standing policy of remaining nonpartisan while civilian leaders oversee policy decisions.”

Defense Department Directive 1325.06, enclosure 3 provides that off-post protests by active-duty service members are legal as long as the protest is done off-post, in the United States, not in uniform, not in “breach of law and order,” and not in a situation in which “violence is likely to result.” Military service members are often wrongfully and illegally told by commanders that all protest is forbidden, but this is not true.

James M. Branum, Edmond, Okla.

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