'People Are Very Scared': Trump Administration Purge of JAG Officers Raises Legal, Ethical Fears

"We're opening it up to everybody to be able to be the top lawyer of those services," Hegseth said, without elaborating further.

But the Air Force JAG officer told Military.com that not just anyone should hold those top positions.

"You can't just pull a lawyer off the street and put him in that job, because there's decades of policy that you kind of have to understand -- the bigger picture of how we got to where we are – in order to steer the ship," the JAG officer added.