Court-Martial Deadline Calculator

Enter the case dates you know. The calculator returns every deadline, waiting period, and effective-date rule those dates trigger under the Rules for Courts-Martial, the Military Rules of Evidence, and the UCMJ — in one chronological calendar, each linked to the governing provision. New to the sequence these dates sit in? Start with the court-martial process overview.

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These dates are calendar arithmetic applied to the periods stated in the rules. They are a starting point for your own computation — not a determination of any deadline in your case. Before acting on any date here, check it against:

the text of the rule or article itself — follow the citation link on each row and read it;
the Military Judges’ Benchbook (EBB) instruction, where one applies;
current case law — appellate decisions construe how these periods run, what tolls or excludes them, and how they are computed; and
your service’s implementing regulations, which may impose shorter or additional deadlines.

The calculator does not account for excludable delay, tolling, weekends and holidays, service-specific rules, or any order of the military judge — each of which can move a real deadline. Not legal advice.

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Period	Authority	Trigger & required action	Category
30 days	Art. 15(b)(1)(A) — 10 U.S.C. § 815(b)(1)(A) UCMJ	Not a date — a limit or threshold Restriction to specified limits may not exceed 30 consecutive days (officer). “restriction to certain specified limits … for not more than 30 consecutive days”	Maximum punishment (NJP)
30 days	Art. 15(b)(1)(B)(i) — 10 U.S.C. § 815(b)(1)(B)(i) UCMJ	Not a date — a limit or threshold Arrest in quarters may not exceed 30 consecutive days (officer). “arrest in quarters for not more than 30 consecutive days”	Maximum punishment (NJP)
60 days	Art. 15(b)(1)(B)(iii) — 10 U.S.C. § 815(b)(1)(B)(iii) UCMJ	Not a date — a limit or threshold Restriction may not exceed 60 consecutive days (officer, imposed by an officer exercising general court-martial authority). “restriction to certain specified limits … for not more than 60 consecutive days”	Maximum punishment (NJP)
3 days	Art. 15(b)(2)(A) — 10 U.S.C. § 815(b)(2)(A) UCMJ	Not a date — a limit or threshold Confinement may not exceed 3 consecutive days (enlisted, limited circumstances). “confinement for not more than three consecutive days”	Maximum punishment (NJP)
7 days	Art. 15(b)(2)(B) — 10 U.S.C. § 815(b)(2)(B) UCMJ	Not a date — a limit or threshold Correctional custody may not exceed 7 consecutive days (enlisted). “correctional custody for not more than seven consecutive days”	Maximum punishment (NJP)
7 days	Art. 15(b)(2)(C) — 10 U.S.C. § 815(b)(2)(C) UCMJ	Not a date — a limit or threshold Forfeiture may not exceed 7 days’ pay (enlisted). “forfeiture of not more than seven days’ pay”	Maximum punishment (NJP)
14 days	Art. 15(b)(2)(E) — 10 U.S.C. § 815(b)(2)(E) UCMJ	Not a date — a limit or threshold Extra duties may not exceed 14 consecutive days (enlisted). “extra duties … for not more than 14 consecutive days”	Maximum punishment (NJP)
14 days	Art. 15(b)(2)(F) — 10 U.S.C. § 815(b)(2)(F) UCMJ	Not a date — a limit or threshold Restriction may not exceed 14 consecutive days (enlisted). “restriction to certain specified limits … for not more than 14 consecutive days”	Maximum punishment (NJP)
14 days	Art. 15(b)(2)(G) — 10 U.S.C. § 815(b)(2)(G) UCMJ	Not a date — a limit or threshold Detention may not exceed 14 days’ pay (enlisted). “detention of not more than 14 days’ pay”	Maximum punishment (NJP)
30 days	Art. 15(b)(2)(H)(ii) — 10 U.S.C. § 815(b)(2)(H)(ii) UCMJ	Not a date — a limit or threshold Correctional custody may not exceed 30 consecutive days (senior enlisted, GCM-level authority). “correctional custody for not more than 30 consecutive days”	Maximum punishment (NJP)
45 days	Art. 15(b)(2)(H)(v) — 10 U.S.C. § 815(b)(2)(H)(v) UCMJ	Not a date — a limit or threshold Extra duties may not exceed 45 consecutive days (senior enlisted). “extra duties … for not more than 45 consecutive days”	Maximum punishment (NJP)
60 days	Art. 15(b)(2)(H)(vi) — 10 U.S.C. § 815(b)(2)(H)(vi) UCMJ	Not a date — a limit or threshold Restriction may not exceed 60 consecutive days (senior enlisted). “restriction to certain specified limits … for not more than 60 consecutive days”	Maximum punishment (NJP)
7 days	Art. 15(e) — 10 U.S.C. § 815(e) UCMJ	Not a date — a limit or threshold Arrest, correctional custody, or forfeiture exceeding 7 days triggers the member’s expanded right to have the punishment reviewed by a superior authority. “more than seven days (arrest / correctional custody / forfeiture)” A threshold, not a deadline to act.	Severity threshold
14 days	Art. 15(e) — 10 U.S.C. § 815(e) UCMJ	Not a date — a limit or threshold Extra duties, restriction, or detention exceeding 14 days triggers the member’s expanded right to have the punishment reviewed by a superior authority. “more than 14 days (extra duties / restriction / detention)” A threshold, not a deadline to act.	Severity threshold
5 days	Art. 35(b)(1)(A) — 10 U.S.C. § 835(b)(1)(A) UCMJ	Runs from charges served on the accused The accused may not, over objection, be brought to trial through the 5th day after service of charges. GCM “with respect to a general court-martial, from the time of service through the fifth day after the date of service” Mirrored by R.C.M. 602(b)(1)(A).	Minimum pretrial waiting period
3 days	Art. 35(b)(1)(B) — 10 U.S.C. § 835(b)(1)(B) UCMJ	Runs from charges served on the accused The accused may not, over objection, be brought to trial through the 3rd day after service of charges. SPCM “with respect to a special court-martial, from the time of service through the third day after the date of service” Mirrored by R.C.M. 602(b)(1)(B).	Minimum pretrial waiting period
180 days	Art. 43(g)(1)(B) — 10 U.S.C. § 843(g)(1)(B) UCMJ	Runs from charges dismissed as defective or insufficient New charges alleging the same acts may be preferred within 180 days of dismissal without being time-barred. “will expire within 180 days after the date of dismissal of the charges and specifications” Applies where the limitations period has expired or will expire within 180 days of the dismissal. See also the Statute of Limitations checker.	Statute-of-limitations extension
60 days	Art. 56(d)(2) — 10 U.S.C. § 856(d)(2) UCMJ	Runs from judgment entered into the record The Government’s appeal of the sentence must be filed. “An appeal … must be filed within 60 days after the date on which the judgment of a court-martial is entered” Mirrored by R.C.M. 1117(b)(1).	Government appeal deadline
14 days	Art. 57(a)(1) — 10 U.S.C. § 857(a)(1) UCMJ	Runs from sentence announced Forfeiture of pay and allowances or reduction in grade takes effect (the earlier of this date or the other statutory trigger). GCM / SPCM “takes effect on the earlier of … the date that is 14 days after the date on which the sentence is adjudged” Mirrored by R.C.M. 1102(b)(1)(A)(i) and 1102(b)(6)(A)(i). NOTE the wording: the statute runs from the sentence being ADJUDGED, while R.C.M. 1102 runs from its being ANNOUNCED under R.C.M. 1007. The two provisions genuinely differ; this tool has one “sentence” date, so check the distinction if they could fall on different days.	Effective-date rule
90 days	Art. 66(c)(1) — 10 U.S.C. § 866(c)(1) UCMJ	Runs from notice of appellate rights provided An appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals must be filed before the later of the end of this 90-day period or a date set by the court. “filed before the later of … the end of the 90-day period beginning on the date the accused is provided notice of appellate rights” Mirrored by R.C.M. 1201(h)(2)(B). Counted with BOTH ends: a period “beginning on” the notice date makes that date day one, so the period ends on notice + 89, not the R.C.M. 103(9) default of notice + 90. Contrast Art. 67(b) and Art. 69, which say “after the date on which…” and so take the default.	Appeal deadline
60 days	Art. 67(b) — 10 U.S.C. § 867(b) UCMJ	Runs from accused notified of the cca decision (the earliest of several events) A petition to the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF) for review must be filed. “within 60 days from the earlier of … the date on which the accused is notified of the decision of a Court of Criminal Appeals” Runs from the earlier of actual notice or the postmark of the mailed copy. Mirrored by R.C.M. 1203(f)(2)(A).	Appeal deadline
60 days	Art. 69 — 10 U.S.C. § 869 UCMJ	Runs from accused notified of the jag's decision An application for Court of Criminal Appeals review must be filed. “60 days after the date on which the accused is notified of the decision of the Judge Advocate General” Mirrored by R.C.M. 1201(k)(1)(B)(i).	Appeal deadline
60 days	Art. 69 — 10 U.S.C. § 869 (mail trigger) UCMJ	Runs from jag decision deposited in the mail An application for Court of Criminal Appeals review must be filed (alternate trigger). “60 days after the date on which a copy of the decision … is deposited in the United States mails” Mirrored by R.C.M. 1201(k)(1)(B)(ii).	Appeal deadline
30 days	Art. 76b(a)(4)(C) — 10 U.S.C. § 876b(a)(4)(C) UCMJ	Runs from notice that competency is restored The director of the facility may retain custody of the person for no more than 30 days after transmitting the notifications. “The director of the facility may retain custody of the person for not more than 30 days after transmitting the notifications” See also R.C.M. 909(g) and the R.C.M. 909(f) Discussion.	Custody time limit
14 days	Art. 137(a)(1) — 10 U.S.C. § 937(a)(1) UCMJ	Runs from accused enters on active duty The specified UCMJ articles must be carefully explained to the member. “at the time of (or within fourteen days after) such entrance” Articles 802, 803, 807–815, 825, 827, 831, 837, 838, 855, 877–934, and 937–939. Applies on initial entrance to active duty, reserve duty, or Space Force active status.	Notice / explanation deadline
15 days	Art. 143(a)(5) — 10 U.S.C. § 943(a)(5) UCMJ	Runs from rules governing caaf senior judges issued The chief judge must transmit the rules or amendments to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees. “not later than 15 days after the issuance of such rules or amendments”	Reporting deadline
5 days	Art. 123a(a) — 10 U.S.C. § 923a(a) UCMJ	Runs from notice that a check was dishonored If the maker or drawer pays the amount due within 5 days of notice, the statutory presumption of fraudulent intent and knowledge of insufficient funds does not attach. “unless the maker or drawer pays the holder the amount due within five days after receiving notice”	Cure period
24 hours	Art. 11(b) — 10 U.S.C. § 811(b) UCMJ	Runs from prisoner committed to a guard The commander of the guard or master at arms must report the prisoner’s name, the offense charged, and the person who ordered or authorized the commitment to the commanding officer. “Every commander of a guard or master at arms to whose charge a prisoner is committed shall, within twenty-four hours after that commitment or as soon as he is relieved from guard, report to the commanding officer the name of the prisoner, the offense charged against him, and the name of the person who ordered or authorized the commitment.” Due within 24 hours of the commitment OR as soon as the officer is relieved from guard, whichever comes first — the computed date is the outside limit. Statutory analog to R.C.M. 305(i)(1).	Reporting deadline
72 hours	Art. 62(a)(2)(A) — 10 U.S.C. § 862(a)(2)(A) UCMJ	Runs from judge's appealable order or ruling Trial counsel must provide the military judge with written notice of appeal from the order or ruling; an appeal may not be taken without it. “An appeal of an order or ruling may not be taken unless the trial counsel provides the military judge with written notice of appeal from the order or ruling within 72 hours of the order or ruling.” Statutory basis for R.C.M. 908(b)(1)–(3), which splits this single requirement into three distinct 72-hour obligations.	Government appeal deadline

WHAT THIS COVERS

Every provision of the Rules for Courts-Martial, the Military Rules of Evidence, and the UCMJ (10 U.S.C. ch. 47) that ties a specific number of days or hours to an event: a deadline to act, a maximum permitted delay, a minimum waiting or notice period, an effective-date rule, a speedy-trial restart, a maximum punishment expressed in days, or an offense-severity threshold.

Hour-based periods are included in full. They cluster in pretrial confinement (R.C.M. 305 and Article 11 — the 24-hour report, 48-hour probable cause determination, and 72-hour commander’s decision) and in interlocutory Government appeals (R.C.M. 908 and Article 62, where three separate 72-hour obligations run from the same ruling); the rest are the R.C.M. 405(l)(1) post-hearing submission, the two advisory R.C.M. 703(g) witness-notice periods, and the Article 86 rule converting hours of absence into days. Several run alongside a day period in the same rule, so both halves appear on the timeline. An hour clock counted from a date with no time of day entered runs from midnight, and the row says so.

Only clock-driven entries are turned into dates. Maximum punishments, severity thresholds, and credit ratios (Article 15’s limits, the Article 86 absence table, the R.C.M. 305(l) confinement credit) are carried in the full reference chart but are never computed as deadlines — they are not dates. Nor are the two exceptions (R.C.M. 305(n)(1) and (n)(2)), which do the opposite: they switch off the pretrial-confinement hour clocks for a unit under an operational-necessity suspension, or for a person confined aboard a vessel at sea. Check them before relying on any R.C.M. 305 hour deadline.

HOW THE DATES ARE COUNTED

R.C.M. 103(9) supplies the default convention, and it is what this calculator applies: “When a period of time is expressed in a number of days, the period shall be in calendar days, unless otherwise specified. Unless otherwise specified, the date on which the period begins shall not count, but the date on which the period ends shall count as one day.” So the Nth day is the trigger date plus N. (R.C.M. 707(b)(1) states the same rule again for the speedy-trial clock, and confirms that “brought to trial” means arraignment under R.C.M. 904.) Calendar days means weekends and holidays are not skipped — and this tool does not skip them.

Two provisions depart from that default, and each is handled as its own rule rather than assumed:

R.C.M. 305(j)(2) counts both ends. “[T]he initial date of confinement under military control shall count as one day and the date of the review shall also count as one day.” The 7-day pretrial confinement review (and its 10-day extension) therefore falls one day earlier than the default rule would give. Applying R.C.M. 103(9) there would report a liberty deadline a day late.
Article 35 / R.C.M. 602 run through a day. Trial may not be held over objection through the 5th (GCM) or 3rd (SPCM) day after service, so the first permissible date is one day beyond — these rows read “Not before.”

Hour clocks are counted as elapsed hours from the time of day you enter; with no time entered they run from midnight, and the row says so in red.

Where a period appears only in a non-binding Discussion, the entry is badged as such. Where the same deadline appears in both the statute and the implementing rule — the Article 35 / R.C.M. 602 waiting period, the Article 57 / R.C.M. 1102 effective date, the Article 66/67/69 / R.C.M. 1201/1203 appeal deadlines — both are listed, because they are formally separate provisions.

Not legal advice. This calculator is an informational aid. It applies ordinary calendar arithmetic to periods stated in the Manual for Courts-Martial and the UCMJ; it does not account for excludable delay, tolling, the treatment of weekends and holidays, orders of the military judge, or the facts of any case. Verify every date against the rule or article itself, the Military Judges’ Benchbook instruction where one applies, current case law, and your service’s implementing regulations — any of which may change how a period is computed or impose a deadline this tool does not carry. Consult a judge advocate or qualified counsel before relying on any date shown here.