The Code

This show could really use a military adviser.

Captain Maya Dobbins needs some advice on wearing the uniform. IE: No Marine ever wears their garrison cap and an angle. Really looked stupid.

The medical doctor was constantly referred to as Commander, while wearing the 2 full stripes on his uniform sleeve of a navy lieutenant, US Navy rank 0-3.

Two officer ranks in the US Navy can be addressed as Commander - a Lieutenant Commander, Navy rank O-4 with 2 full and one 1/2 stripe --- or a full Commander, Navy rank O-5 -- three full stripes.. An O-6 (4 full stripes) is a navy captain. The US Coast Guard used the same system as the navy.

In the Marines, along with the Army and Air Force O-3 officers are captains, O-4s are majors, O-5 are Lt Colonels, and O-6 are (full/bird) Colonels

A very poorly done imitation of JAG/ A Few Good Men. Hopefully gets better or will end up being a mid season cancellation.

All the reviews complain about how the marines hair and clothes aren't accurate, nobody mentions the writing or show, the acting, camera work and directing is seemingly not important, because some guy has long hair when it should be short.

I'm not American so I would've never noticed the mistakes, nor cared about them, it's a fictional show about fictional events. Next post you'll see people complaining "they use actors and not real marines" or "they don't use real court cases, it's all made up". It's a show people.

Who knew eh?

Imagine if every review section was cluttered with whinges about how tv shows aren't faithfully and accurately representing a group... Just imagine - they'd be completely cluttered up with the carelessness that gets taken when representing women, minority groups, the underprivileged, disabled, older, younger, people.

But marines, you can tell how important they think the world needs to take their own jargon, codes and systems via the way they've thrown their toys out of the pram that their oh-so-important hierarchical structure of power asn't been faithfully reproduced in this DRAMA.

Snowflakes, indeed.

As a former USAF JAG, I cannot recall any case where the prosecution was allowed to call the accused as a witness. The right against self incrimination is observed under the UCMJ.