Florida lawyers go to work in Iraq.

I am a captain in the Army Judge Advocate General Corps and serve as chief of military justice for LSA Anaconda, Balad, Iraq, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom II. My current position is akin to being a small town district attorney, except that the pinstripes are replaced with a desert camouflage uniform, and the PDA is exchanged for a 9mm Beretta.

My main responsibility is to manage the flow of courts-martial in my jurisdiction, which includes more than 20,000 soldiers in Balad, Baghdad, Tikrit, and Taji, Iraq. I have four subordinate trial counsel and several par