Ep. 287: The JAG Corps with 3L Henry Carras

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

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4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Ben and Nathan are joined by Henry Carras, a 3L at GW who is preparing to go into the JAG (Judge Advocate General’s) Corps. Harry discusses the ins and outs of what it means to be a Judge Advocate in different branches of the military, what responsibilities JAG Corps officers have outside of lawyer-ing, and what it takes to be accepted into the JAG Corps. The guys also hear from a student who’s wondering if creating a good network in law school is better than being a big fish with a scholarship, they skewer a money-grab email from Georgetown, take a look at an excuse of the week, and get into another LR question from prep test 65. Read more on our website!

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0:00.0	Nathan and I have agreed that we're not going to swear anymore in this show.
0:04.0	Of course, we're not going to swear any less either. Hello and welcome to episode 287 of the Thinking Elsap podcast.
0:20.0	Today on the show we have an interview with a contracted army jag Henry
0:28.0	Carras. What do you think about our interview with Henry and the whole JAG thing is it something that our
0:34.8	listeners should maybe check out? I think so yeah especially if you have any
0:39.2	interest in the JAG core or which is basically being an attorney in some branch of the military.
0:46.2	Yeah, listen to Henry.
0:47.7	Yeah, he's a 3L at George Washington which is also Ben's alma mater. He got his placement or his, what did he call it?
0:58.9	Assignment? No? Commission? He got commission some at some point during his three L year so he knows exactly what he's going to do after law school he had previously done an internship and an externship with the Army JAG I guess.
1:15.4	And he is gonna go, you know, become one of those
1:20.0	Tom Cruise like Army lawyers and I didn't know anything about the JAG process.
1:27.0	So listeners, by the way this came from listener email help at thinking else at.com.
1:32.3	We had people asking us about JAG they wanted to learn more about JAG so
1:36.6	Annalisa went out and found us JAG to talk to so yeah, that was really cool
1:42.4	We have an email from a listener who wants to know whether
1:45.8	full tuition scholarship recipients should assume that they're going to be the big fish when they go to law school. We have a random spam email from Georgetown out there trying to get high
2:00.4	G. R. E. Scorers to apply to their school,
2:03.7	whether or not they actually want to admit you is a different story.
2:08.4	They, but they are out there fishing for applicants for the for the
2:13.0	the 2021 class which that's especially hard to really believe but we've got a
2:21.2	listener email we have an excuse of the week where a student failed on a game and their excuse was that they did not understand cardinal directions.
2:33.3	Oh, wait, maybe it wasn't a game.
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