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<h3 style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','Arial'; color: royalblue; font-weight: bold; border-bottom-style: none; border-style: none;">Are SFJAG officers line or staff designated? </h3>
<h3 style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','Arial'; color: royalblue; font-weight: bold; border-bottom-style: none; border-style: none;">Are SFJAG officers line or staff designated? </h3>
Neither actually. SFJAG officers are designated Limited Duty Officers (LDO). The term "limited duty" refers not to an LDO's authority, but rather the LDO's career progression and restrictions. In general, they may succeed to command activities which have a primary function corresponding to their Star Fleet officer designator or SF Marine Corps MOS. In this sense, LDO’s are in the middle between Line and Staff officers, not unlike their Warrant Officer brethren who serve in technical roles above Enlisted grades and below the commissioned Officer corps.
In Star Fleet, commissioned officers are categorized as either line officers, staff corps officers, or Limited Duto Officers. Line officers are typically those eligible for command of operational or combat units, while staff corps officers specialize in non-combat areas like law, medicine, chaplaincy, etc.<br>
 
Across all Star Fleet service components, JAG officers, who are the military's lawyers, are considered staff corps officers, not line officers, and are part of the Judge Advocate General's Corps. The Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG Corps) is a staff corps, meaning JAG officers are not typically in command of starships or other combat units in either Star Fleet or the Star Fleet Marine Corps.<br> 
 
A Star Fleet Limited Duty Officer (LDO) is a commissioned officer selected based on technical expertise and leadership skills, filling leadership and management positions at the Ensign through Captain level in specific technical fields related to their former enlisted ratings.<br>


<h3 style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','Arial'; color: royalblue; font-weight: bold; border-bottom-style: none; border-style: none;">Can a higher rank officer give an order to a SFJAG officer?</h3>
<h3 style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','Arial'; color: royalblue; font-weight: bold; border-bottom-style: none; border-style: none;">Can a higher rank officer give an order to a SFJAG officer?</h3>
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