<p>True story. I applied for LEP (Law Education Program) in 1989. Got accepted to law school. Things were looking good, but I was stymied by a rule that said I would have been 3 months too senior to be considered for the program, and the rule was not waiverable. Thus ended my nascent dreams of becoming a Navy JAG.</p>
<p>What you always hear is that you should have a warfare specialty - that means a SWO pin, and, at least in the P-3 Navy, you needed to be Plane Commander or TACCO qualified. if you want to cross over to a staff job like JAG; your operational experience gives you perspective that JAG’s who go straight from law school to OCS don’t have, makes you more promotable, etc. The practical problem is that for aviators, by the time you earn those quals after lengthy waits to begin flight school, flight school itself and then qualifying for your warfare designator, you are figuratively about out of runway to take advantage of LEP. </p>
<p>Might be a little easier for SWO’s and Nukes, but still pretty hard. Your only other option is to pay for it yourself and then apply for a transfer over to JAG. Doable, but pretty expensive, and there are possibly a lot more lucrative law opportunities out there than Navy LT pay with a big law school debt as well.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.jag.navy.mil/careers/careers/opportunities_lep.html[/url]”>http://www.jag.navy.mil/careers/careers/opportunities_lep.html</a> - here’s the link to the official gouge on LEP</p>