EO 13387 Title 3--The President Sec. 4. Part V of the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, is amended as follows: (a) Paragraph l(h) is amended by redesignating existing paragraph l(h) as 1(i) and inserting the following new paragraph 1(h): "h. Applicable standards. Unless otherwise provided, the service regula- tions and procedures of the servicemember shall apply." (b) Paragraph 2(a) is amended by replacing the words "Unless otherwise" with the word "As". (c) Paragraph 2(a) is amended by inserting the following after the second sentence: "Commander includes a commander of a joint command." (d) Paragraph 2(a) is amended by inserting the words "of a commander" in the third sentence after the words "the authority." Sec. 5. These amendments shall take effect 30 days from the date of this order. (a) Nothing in these amendments shall be construed to make punishable any act done or omitted prior to the effective date of this order that was not punishable when done or omitted. (b) Nothing in these amendments shall be construed to invalidate any nonjudicial punishment proceeding, restraint, investigation, referral of charges, trial in which arraignment occurred, or other action begun prior to the effective date of this order, and any such nonjudicial punishment proceeding, restraint, investigation, referral of charges, trial, or other action may proceed in the same manner and with the same effect as if these amendments had not been prescribed. GEORGE W. BUSH THE WHITE HOUSE, October 14, 2005. 186
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