MLR-10 · MILITARY LIFE RECORD
Legal, Discipline & Administrative Record
MLR-10: Orders, investigations, nonjudicial punishment, courts-martial, evaluations, reprimands, administrative actions, corrections, complaints, and appeals.
Controlling research question
Preserve the complete proceeding, authority, notice, evidence, decision, and deadline rather than only the final adverse entry.
Core records to preserve
Notices; orders; charge or allegation documents; investigation files; evidence; rebuttals; hearing records; decisions; review and appeal records.
Chronology and evidence testing
- Record the event date separately from the date a document was created.
- Identify the person, component, unit, duty status, location, and issuing office where they matter.
- Separate a record’s express statement from inference, family recollection, or a later summary.
- Preserve conflicts rather than silently harmonizing them; record negative searches by repository, query, dates, and coverage.
Key evidence pathways
Related navigation guides
- Military Legal Assistance Administrative Proceedings
- Security Clearance Administrative Decisions
- Complaints Grievances Inspector General Channels
- Appeals Review Choosing The Correct Lane
Authority and effective-date discipline
This Life Record chapter organizes chronology and evidence. It does not by itself state current eligibility, entitlement, deadline, or legal effect. For a rule-dependent question, identify the governing statute, regulation, departmental instruction, program guidance, or decision effective on the relevant date and use the linked Navigation Guide for the current pathway.
Preservation standard
Keep the best available source copy unchanged. Store edited, OCR, transcription, annotation, or working versions separately. Record creator, date/covered period, repository, exact locator, provenance, proposition supported, express limitations, and derivative lineage.
