MCRD PARIS ISLAND COURT MARTIAL MILITARY DEFENSE ATTORNEY.

Are you:

• Under investigation?
• Charged by military authorities?
• Facing an Article 32, UCMJ Hearing?
• Facing General Court Martial?
• Facing Special Court Martial?

MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT PARIS ISLAND, SC COURT MARTIAL MILITARY DEFENSE ATTORNEY.

When you are in a MCAS Beaufort or MCRD Paris Island military courtroom, and the opposition is the United States, you need an experienced and proven court martial military defense attorney.

Attorney Patrick Korody has the experience, training, and skills to ensure that your rights as a member of the military and a citizen of the United States are protected. He spent close to a decade on active duty defending and prosecuting members of the military and advising commanders on how to dispose of misconduct. He was trained by the military to execute this mission, and left the Navy JAG Corps as one of its preeminent litigators. He defended Marines – primarily students, instructors, and pilots – while stationed at NAS Pensacola on active duty as the areas Senior Defense Counsel.

• Article 32, UCMJ Hearings
• Summary Courts-Martial
• Special Courts-Martial
• General Courts-Martial

If you already have an assigned military defense counsel, you also have the right to hire a civilian military defense attorney. Your military defense counsel will continue on the case as the assistant defense counsel and assist me in defending your case.

Mr. Korody represents Navy Sailors, Marines, Coastguardsmen, Soldiers, and Airman on-board MCAS Beaufort and MCRD Paris Island at Article 32, UCMJ Preliminary Hearings and Special and General Courts Martial for all offenses under the UCMJ, including:

• Sexual assault and other sex offenses
• Drug use (urinalysis), possession, introduction, and distribution
• Domestic violence
• Receipt, possession, distribution of child pornography
• Theft and fraud, including basic allowance for housing (BAH) fraud
• Unauthorized absence (UA, AWOL) / Desertion
• Homicide
• Arson
• Loss of sensitive/classified information
• Sexual harassment
• DUI/DWI

Our strategy at Korody Law is simple.

Zealously represent your clients.

Thoroughly prepare.

Litigate to Win.

About Marine Corps Recruit Depot Paris Island, South Carolina

Marines were first assigned to Parris Island on June 26, 1891, in the form of a small security detachment headed by First Sergeant Richard Donovan, two corporals and 10 privates.^[2] This unit was attached to the Naval Station, Port Royal, the forerunner of Parris Island. Donovan’s unit was highly commended for preserving life and property during hurricanes and storm surges that swept over the island in 1891 and 1893.

Military buildings and homes constructed between 1891 and World War I form the nucleus of the Parris Island Historic District. At the district center are the commanding general’s home, a 19th-century wooden dry dock and a start of the 20th century gazebo—all of which are on the National Register of Historic Places.^[3]

On November 1, 1915, Parris Island was officially designated a Marine Corps Recruit Depot and training was continued from then on.

Prior to 1929, a ferry provided all transportation to and from the island from Port Royal docks to the Recruit Depot docks. In that year the causeway and a bridge over Archer’s Creek were completed, thus ending the water transportation era. The causeway was dedicated as the General E. A. Pollock Memorial Causeway in April 1984. During the fateful December 1941, 5,272 recruits arrived there with 9,206 arriving the following month, making it necessary to add the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Recruit Training Battalions. As the war influx continued, five battalions were sent to New River, North Carolina, to train, and the Depot expanded to 13 battalions. From 1941 through 1945, the Marines trained 204,509 recruits here and at the time of the Japanese surrender, the Depot contained more than 20,000 recruits.

On February 15, 1949, the Marines activated a separate “command” for the sole purpose of training female recruits. Later, this command was designated the 4th Recruit Training Battalion and it now serves as the only battalion in the Corps for training female recruits, and is the only all-female unit in the Department of Defense.

The Korean War began in 1950 when 2,350 recruits were in training. From then until the 1st Marine Division withdrew from Korea, Parris Island drill instructors trained more than 138,000 recruits. During March 1952, the training load peaked at 24,424 recruits. The recruit tide again flooded during the years of the Vietnam War, reaching a peak training load of 10,979 during March 1966.

On the night of April 8, 1956, the Ribbon Creek incident resulted in the drowning of six recruits, and led to widespread changes in recruit training policies. Supervision of drill instructors was expanded, such as the introduction of the Series Commander.

On October 11, 2002, the Town of Port Royal annexed the entire island,^[4] although most visitors still associate the installation with Beaufort, a larger community five miles to the north.

On June 17, 2011, Brigadier General Lori Reynolds became the first female commander of the base.^[5]

At the next change of command on June 20, 2014, Brigadier General Terry Williams became the first African-American commander of the base.