Major Joshua Mast

Do reporters come knock on the door? Yes. Do crazy people know, you know, can know where we live? Yes. So all of those concerns, and obviously, I think with the veteran community, they could understand why we'd be concerned about that.

Like every judge advocate in the Marine Corps, we start out and you build MOS or military occupation specialty credibility by doing a trial billet. So I had done my time in the trial shop about two years.

Like every judge advocate in the Marine Corps, we start out and you build MOS or military occupation specialty credibility by doing a trial billet. So I had done my time in the trial shop about two years.

Like every judge advocate in the Marine Corps, we start out and you build MOS or military occupation specialty credibility by doing a trial billet. So I had done my time in the trial shop about two years.

And I had done, while I was doing that, I had as much as possible to try to be involved in operational law, which is where my interest lied, which is advising commanders in light the law of war and rules of engagement and targeting. And so I got the opportunity to be the Marine Corps representative at the Army JAG School in Charlottesville, Virginia.

And I had done, while I was doing that, I had as much as possible to try to be involved in operational law, which is where my interest lied, which is advising commanders in light the law of war and rules of engagement and targeting. And so I got the opportunity to be the Marine Corps representative at the Army JAG School in Charlottesville, Virginia.

And I had done, while I was doing that, I had as much as possible to try to be involved in operational law, which is where my interest lied, which is advising commanders in light the law of war and rules of engagement and targeting. And so I got the opportunity to be the Marine Corps representative at the Army JAG School in Charlottesville, Virginia.

And so there's a section there called CLAMA, which stands for the Center for Law and Military Operations. And what they do is... They're kind of like the after-action reports and lessons learned across the spectrum of operational law. So there's domestic operational law for, like, disaster relief and such. There's, like, noncombatant evacuation ops, targeting.

And so there's a section there called CLAMA, which stands for the Center for Law and Military Operations. And what they do is... They're kind of like the after-action reports and lessons learned across the spectrum of operational law. So there's domestic operational law for, like, disaster relief and such. There's, like, noncombatant evacuation ops, targeting.

And so there's a section there called CLAMA, which stands for the Center for Law and Military Operations. And what they do is... They're kind of like the after-action reports and lessons learned across the spectrum of operational law. So there's domestic operational law for, like, disaster relief and such. There's, like, noncombatant evacuation ops, targeting.

And so the Marines' portfolio in that section is—

And so the Marines' portfolio in that section is—

And so the Marines' portfolio in that section is—

the joint targeting process collateral damage estimation and civilian casualty response and so when you get there you go through all the training in those disciplines to understand those and then you're dealing with you're you're finding marines have deployed with the mu or deployed to afghanistan or deployed to iraq or syria and as they come back you're capturing those lessons learned and then you're publishing and disseminating them

the joint targeting process collateral damage estimation and civilian casualty response and so when you get there you go through all the training in those disciplines to understand those and then you're dealing with you're you're finding marines have deployed with the mu or deployed to afghanistan or deployed to iraq or syria and as they come back you're capturing those lessons learned and then you're publishing and disseminating them

the joint targeting process collateral damage estimation and civilian casualty response and so when you get there you go through all the training in those disciplines to understand those and then you're dealing with you're you're finding marines have deployed with the mu or deployed to afghanistan or deployed to iraq or syria and as they come back you're capturing those lessons learned and then you're publishing and disseminating them

And one of the things I did, I was an editor for what they call the, now they call it the National Security Law Quarterly, where we collect all that knowledge and spread it across DOD in the different judge advocate communities so that you learn from those experiences. And that's actually what I was doing in Afghanistan in 2019 when I deployed.

And one of the things I did, I was an editor for what they call the, now they call it the National Security Law Quarterly, where we collect all that knowledge and spread it across DOD in the different judge advocate communities so that you learn from those experiences. And that's actually what I was doing in Afghanistan in 2019 when I deployed.

And one of the things I did, I was an editor for what they call the, now they call it the National Security Law Quarterly, where we collect all that knowledge and spread it across DOD in the different judge advocate communities so that you learn from those experiences. And that's actually what I was doing in Afghanistan in 2019 when I deployed.

I did a very short trip in 2018 to sit with like at Camp Alpha and Camp Vance and watch some of the targeting going on live and talk to them about like, hey, what are you seeing? And then the other thing I would do is I would instruct at the schoolhouse during operational law courses, or sometimes they'd have other legal communities ask you to come in and speak on operational law.