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PROCESSING COMMAND—The parent command
to which a member is permanently assigned has
primary responsibility for administrative
processing.
PROVOKING—Tending to incite, irritate, or enrage
another.
PROXIMATE CAUSE—That which, in natural and
continuous sequence, unbroken by an efficient
intervening cause, produces a result, and without
which the result would not have occurred.
PROXIMATE RESULT—A reasonably foreseeable
result ordinarily following from the lack of care
complained of, unbroken by any independent cause.
PUNITIVE ARTICLES—Articles 78 and 80 through
134, UCMJ, that generally describe various crimes
and offenses and state how they may be punished.
PUNITIVE DISCHARGE—A discharge imposed as
punishment by a court-martial, either a bad-conduct
discharge or a dishonorable discharge.
QUALIFIED COUNSEL—Counsel qualified under
Article 27(b), UCMJ, and who does not have any
direct responsibility for advising the convening
authority or separation authority on the proceedings
involving the respondent.
RAPE—An act of sexual intercourse with a female, not
the accused’s wife, done by force and without her
consent.
REAL EVIDENCE—Any physical object offered into
evidence at trial.
RECESS—A short period of time during which a trial
is not in progress.
RECKLESSNESS—An act or omission exhibiting a
culpable disregard for the foreseeable consequences
of that act or omission; a degree of carelessness
greater than simple negligence.
RECONSIDERATION—The action of the convening
authority in returning the record of trial to the court
for renewed consideration of a ruling of the court
dismissing a specification on motion, where the
ruling of the court does not amount to a finding of
not guilty.
REFERRAL OF CHARGES—The action of a
convening authority in directing that a particular
case be tried by a particular court-martial previously
created.
RELEASE FROM ACTIVE DUTY—Termination of
active duty status and transfer or reversion to a
Reserve component not on active duty including
transfer to the Individual Ready Reserve.
RELEVANCY—That quality of evidence that renders
it properly applicable in proving or disproving any
matter in issues; a tendency in logic to prove or
disprove a fact that is in issue in the case.
REMEDIAL ACTION—Action taken by proper
reviewing authorities to correct an error or errors in
the proceedings or to offset the adverse impact of
an error.
REMISSION—Action by proper authority interrupting
the execution of a punishment and canceling out the
punishment remaining to be served, while not
restoring any right, privilege, or property already
affected by the executed portion of the punishment.
REPROACHFUL—Censuring, blaming, discrediting,
or disgracing of another’s life or character.
RESISTING APPREHENSION—An active
resistance to the restraint attempted to be imposed
by the person apprehending.
RESPONDENT—A member who has been notified
that action has been initiated to separate the
member.
RESTRICTION—Moral restraint imposed as
punishment, or pretrial restraint upon a person by
oral or written orders limiting him or her to specified
areas of a military command, with the further
provision that he or she will participate in all
military duties and activities of his or her
organization while under such restriction.
REVISION—A procedure to correct an apparent error
or omission or improper or inconsistent action of a
court-martial with respect to a finding or a sentence.
SEARCH—A quest for incriminating evidence.
SEIZURE—To take possession of forcibly, to grasp, to
snatch, or to put into possession.
SELF-DEFENSE—The use of reasonable force to
defend oneself against immediate bodily harm
threatened by the unlawful act of another.
SELF-INCRIMINATION—The giving of evidence
against oneself that tends to establish guilt of an
offense.
SENTENCE—The punishment awarded an accused
who is found guilty of an offense by a court-martial.
SEPARATION—A general term that includes
discharge, release from active duty, transfer to the
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