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Executive Order 14130 of December 20, 2024 

2024 Amendments to the Manual for Courts Martial, United 

States 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 

laws of the United States of America, including chapter 47 of title 10, 

United States Code (Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. 801–946a), 

and in order to prescribe additions and amendments to the Manual for 

Courts-Martial, United States, prescribed by Executive Order 12473 of April 

13, 1984, as amended, it is hereby ordered as follows: 

Section 1. Part II, Part III, Part IV, and Part V of the Manual for CourtsMartial, United States, are amended as described in the Annex attached 

to and made a part of this order. 

Sec. 2. With this order, I hereby prescribe regulations for the randomized 

selection of qualified personnel as members of a court-martial to the maximum extent practicable, pursuant to section 543 of the James M. Inhofe 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, Public Law 117– 

263 (10 U.S.C. 825(e)(4)). 

Sec. 3. Except as provided in sections 4 and 5 of this order, these amendments 

shall take effect on the date of this order, subject to the following: 

(a) Nothing in these amendments shall be construed to make punishable 

any act committed or omitted prior to the date of this order that was 

not punishable when committed or omitted. 

(b) Nothing in these amendments shall be construed to invalidate any 

nonjudicial punishment proceeding, restraint, preliminary hearing, referral 

of charges, trial in which arraignment occurred, or other action begun prior 

to the date of this order, and any such nonjudicial punishment proceeding, 

restraint, preliminary hearing, referral of charges, trial in which arraignment 

occurred, or other action may proceed in the same manner and with the 

same effect as if these amendments had not been prescribed. 

Sec. 4. The amendments to Rule for Courts-Martial (R.C.M.) 908(c)(3), R.C.M. 

1205(a), and R.C.M. 1209(a)(1) shall take effect on December 22, 2024, subject 

to the following: 

(a) Nothing in these amendments shall be construed to make punishable 

any act committed or omitted prior to the effective date that was not punishable when committed or omitted. 

(b) Nothing in these amendments shall be construed to invalidate any 

nonjudicial punishment proceeding, restraint, preliminary hearing, referral 

of charges, trial in which arraignment occurred, or other action begun prior 

to the effective date, and any such nonjudicial punishment proceeding, 

restraint, preliminary hearing, referral of charges, trial in which arraignment 

occurred, or other action may proceed in the same manner and with the 

same effect as if these amendments had not been prescribed. 

Sec. 5. The amendment to R.C.M. 503(a)(1) shall take effect on December 

23, 2024, subject to the following: 

(a) Nothing in this amendment shall be construed to make punishable 

any act committed or omitted prior to the effective date that was not punishable when committed or omitted. 

(b) Nothing in this amendment shall be construed to invalidate any nonjudicial punishment proceeding, restraint, preliminary hearing, referral of 


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charges, trial in which arraignment occurred, or other action begun prior 

to the effective date, and any such nonjudicial punishment proceeding, 

restraint, preliminary hearing, referral of charges, trial in which arraignment 

occurred, or other action may proceed in the same manner and with the 

same effect as if this amendment had not been prescribed. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

December 20, 2024. 

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