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7th Legal Support Detachment

New York Guard

Lieutenant Colonel

Brian Cogan

Commander

OUR MISSION AND OUR MEMBERS:

We are a group of New York City lawyers, judges, engineers, doctors and other professionals and paraprofessionals committed to voluntary, part-time military service in support of the New York National Guard and U.S. Military Reserve Units from all branches. When soldiers are called up for duty, we make sure their legal needs are attended to so that they can do the important job of protecting our country with the peace of mind of knowing that their affairs are in order. We draft their wills, prepare powers of attorney and other necessary documents, and advise them of their rights as soldiers under federal law and as citizens of the United States.

Most of us are lawyers, but we come from all areas of practice, counting among our ranks general practitioners, immigration lawyers, criminal specialists, landlord tenant experts, personal injury lawyers, transactional lawyers, and estate lawyers. We have solo practitioners and big firm lawyers, and we have judges from many of the courts in New York City. Like many kinds of legal practice, we learn new skills from our work in the Guard that are different from what we do in our civilian careers.

7TH SALUTES THE FIGHTING 69TH

On repeated occasions over the years, the 7th New York Guard has had the honor of providing legal services to the 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry (Mechanized), NY Army National Guard. We salute these men and women of the Fighting 69th for their distinguished service in Iraq. You have served in the greatest tradition of your historic Unit. We mourn with you for the losses and casualties sustained by your personnel and remember with some sense of pride the small role our JAG Officers played in providing legal services prior to your mobilization. We support the efforts of your families in obtaining the well-deserved support which you seek, and we offer whatever assistance we can to achieve that goal.