Joint Sensitive Activity Legal Training

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Sensitive Activities JSALT SOC 3622 Nomination Only Top Secret/SCI

Description

Description: The Joint Sensitive Activity Legal Training (JSALT) course prepares legal practitioners to provide thorough legal advice in planning, review, execution, oversight, and assessment of sensitive activities across the Special Operations Forces (SOF) enterprise. Through a mixture of lecture and scenario-based instruction, built around a realistic but fictitious concept of operations (CONOP), learners will analyze legal authorities, policy impacts, operational considerations, and oversight requirements to develop comprehensive legal recommendations in support of U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and/or SOF supported combatant command (COCOM) missions. Duration: This is a five-day course beginning Monday, 2 November 2026 and ending Friday, 6 November 2026. Location: This is an in-person course held at Joint Special Operations University, MacDill AFB, Bldg. 5200.

Audience

This course is designed for current or identified (have received orders/accepted job offers) judge advocates, civilian attorneys, or paralegals assigned or attached to SOF units and commands that will be advising on or providing oversight of sensitive activities. Such units/commands would include Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), Theater Special Operations Commands (TSOCs), SOF service component commands, joint special operations task forces (JSOTF) / combined joint special operations task forces (CJSOTF), or other joint task forces (JTF) that have SOF personnel conducting sensitive activities.

Remarks

Registration for this course is on the JSOU SIPR site.

Materials

All required texts and materials will be available to the student on either the course’s SIPR SharePoint site or issued upon arrival in the classroom. Students should bring their SIPR token with them each day for class work.

Accreditation

This course is currently non-accredited.

Schedule
27A (02-Nov-2026 to 06-Nov-2026)
Location: JSOU Bldg
Comments: Registration for this course is on SIPR - soja-ops@socom.smil.mil This course is by nomination only.
Enrollment On SIPR
27B (19-Apr-2027 to 23-Apr-2027)
Location: JSOU Bldg
Comments: Registration for this course is on SIPR - soja-ops@socom.smil.mil This course is by nomination only.
Enrollment On SIPR