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(1) Judge advocates. All judge advocates will receive training at initial military legal and periodic refresher training
on the following essential tasks:
(a) DOD and Army sexual assault response policies: confidentiality policy rules and limitations.
1. Use of “restricted” reports by command, investigative agencies, trial and defense counsel.
2. Relationship of “restricted” reports to MRE.
(b) Victim rights.
1. Familiarity with Victim/Witness Assistance Program.
2. Victim and Witness Assistance Program challenges in the deployed environment.
(c) Victimology.
1. Victimization process.
2. Victim responses: trauma and post traumatic stress disorder.
3. Understanding sex offenders.
(d) Recantations and false information.
(e) Deployment issues: remote location assistance and Victim and Witness Assistance Program.
(2) Judge advocate trial counsel and military defense counsel. All trial and military defense counsel (that is, military
judge advocate prosecutors at courts-martial) will receive initial and periodic refresher training, when required based on
their position, on the following essential tasks:
(a) Sexual assault response policies.
1. DOD.
2. Service specific.
3. DOD confidentiality policy rules and limitations.
(b) Evidence.
1. Forensic and scientific-working knowledge of: Sexual Assault Examination Kit, basic forensic photography, and
lab results.
2. Rules of evidence-MRE 412, 413, and 615 and case law concerning the admission of expert testimony (scientific
and nonscientific).
(c) Interviewing, trial preparation, and cross-examination skills.
1. Victim.
2. Lay witnesses.
3. Expert witness.
(d) Sexual assault victim preparation for interviews, depositions and testimony.
g. Chaplains. All chaplains will receive initial and periodic refresher training on the following essential tasks:
(1) Sexual assault response policies.
(a) DOD
(b) Army prevention and response policy.
(c) Privileged communications and confidentiality policy rules and limitations.
(2) Victimology.
(a) Types of assault.
(b) Health consequences.
1. Mental/spiritual health.
2. Physical health.
(c) Myths and facts.
(d) Secondary victimization.
(e) Cultural/religious differences.
(3) Victim rights.
(4) Trauma training with pastoral applications.
(a) Types of injury.
(b) Consulting/referral process.
(5) Documentation.
(6) Permissible reporting of information to command and others.
Appendix J
Sexual Assault Forensic Exam, Collection, and Preservation of Evidence under Restricted
Reporting
106 AR 600–20 18 March 2008