118 STAT. 1922 PUBLIC LAW 108–375—OCT. 28, 2004 ‘‘(e) No officer or employee of the Department of Defense may interfere with— ‘‘(1) the ability of the Judge Advocate General to give independent legal advice to the Secretary of the Army or the Chief of Staff of the Army; or ‘‘(2) the ability of judge advocates of the Army assigned or attached to, or performing duty with, military units to give independent legal advice to commanders.’’. (b) DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY.—(1) Section 5148 of such title is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: ‘‘(e) No officer or employee of the Department of Defense may interfere with— ‘‘(1) the ability of the Judge Advocate General to give independent legal advice to the Secretary of the Navy or the Chief of Naval Operations; or ‘‘(2) the ability of judge advocates of the Navy assigned or attached to, or performing duty with, military units to give independent legal advice to commanders.’’. (2) Section 5046 of such title is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: ‘‘(c) No officer or employee of the Department of Defense may interfere with— ‘‘(1) the ability of the Staff Judge Advocate to the Com mandant of the Marine Corps to give independent legal advice to the Commandant of the Marine Corps; or ‘‘(2) the ability of judge advocates of the Marine Corps assigned or attached to, or performing duty with, military units to give independent legal advice to commanders.’’. (c) DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE.—Section 8037 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘, but may be’’ in the second sentence and all that follows in that sentence through ‘‘President’’; (2) in subsection (c)— (A) by striking ‘‘shall’’ in the matter preceding para graph (1); (B) by striking paragraph (2); (C) by redesignating paragraph (1) as paragraph (3) and in that paragraph— (i) inserting ‘‘shall’’ before ‘‘receive,’’; and (ii) by striking ‘‘; and’’ at the end and inserting a period; and (D) by inserting before paragraph (3), as so redesig nated, the following new paragraphs: ‘‘(1) is the legal adviser of the Secretary of the Air Force and of all officers and agencies of the Department of the Air Force; ‘‘(2) shall direct the officers of the Air Force designated as judge advocates in the performance of their duties; and’’; (3) in subsection (d)(1), by striking ‘‘, but may be’’ in the second sentence and all that follows in that sentence through ‘‘President’’; and (4) by adding at the end the following new subsection: ‘‘(f) No officer or employee of the Department of Defense may interfere with—
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