The United States Army Trial Defense Service (USATDS or TDS) is an independent Field Operating Agency within the US Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, and is part of the US Army Legal Services Agency (USALSA). The TDS motto: "Defending Those Who Defend America."
A Colonel, JA, heads the Trial Defense Service Office of the Chief, located in Fort Belvoir. TDS consists of the Chief, TDS, the Deputy Chief, the Chief Defense Counsel, a Senior Defense and Defense Training Counsels, a Legal Administrator Warrant Officer, a Senior Paralegal, two administrative staff, and nearly 200 Judge Advocates worldwide. Under the Chief of TDS, there are nine Regional Defense Counsel (RDC) responsible for overseeing defense services within a geographic region (see below). Each RDC oversees several Senior Defense Counsel (SDC), who manage field offices with the responsibility of providing defense services for a specific post, command, or area. Some field offices oversee geographically separate branch offices.
AR 27-10 attaches all TDS attorneys to the Trial Defense Service with duty at a particular installation and requires the commander of the installation or organization and the respective SJA or supporting legal office to provide administrative and logistical support to defense counsel assigned to the installation, regardless of the lack of a command relationship.
The bulk of TDS is made up of US Army Reserve attorneys and paralegals. The reserve component of the Trial Defense Service consists of the 22nd Legal Support Organization and the 154th Legal Support Organization. The 22nd LSO is responsible for reserve TDS services west of the Mississippi River (except Minnesota), Alaska, Hawaii and South Korea; and the 154th LSO is responsible for TDS service east of the Mississippi and in Minnesota, Germany, and Puerto Rico. Both LSOs are divided into teams that are spread throughout their areas of responsibility.
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