> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.bodiesburied.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Article 107 Sentences in the Army: Confinement and Discharges, 2021–2025 - URL: https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-107-sent-2021-2025/ - Published: 2026-10-28T06:33:26.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-30T08:04:44.000Z - Description: The Army records hold 130 convictions under Article 107, false official statement, from 2021–2025. The median confinement was 5 months, compared with 6 months across all Army convictions. Of convicted enlisted members, 62% received a punitive discharge, compared with 73%. - Author: Jocelyn C. Stewart - Tags: Understanding Trends, Article 107, Army [Trends](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/) › [By Offense](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/by-offense/) › [Article 107](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/article-107-courts-martial/) › Article 107 Sentences in the Army: Confi **Short answer:** The Army records hold 130 convictions under Article 107, false official statement, from 2021–2025\. The median confinement was 5 months, compared with 6 months across all Army convictions. Of convicted enlisted members, 62% received a punitive discharge, compared with 73%. Based on 130 cases · 2021–2025 · Army records · data updated October 24, 2026 ## Article 107 Was Usually Charged With Other Articles Article 107 makes it a crime to sign a false official document or make a false official statement with intent to deceive. In the Army records, it is rarely the only charge. In 119 of these 130 convictions, at least one other article was also charged. The articles most often charged with it were Article 121 (larceny) in 34 cases, Article 134 (the general article) in 25, Article 128 (assault) in 24, Article 112a (drug offenses) in 21, and Article 120 (sexual assault) in 20. This post covers Army courts-martial that ended in a conviction under Article 107\. Each sentence covers every charge in the case. The confinement and discharge numbers therefore describe whole cases, not the false statement alone. ## Shorter Sentences Than the Army Overall Confinement was part of 76% of the 130 sentences. The median confinement was 5 months, compared with a 6-month median across all Army convictions. A quarter of terms were 1.1 years or longer. No confinement was part of 24% of convictions here, compared with 17% Army-wide. Sentences longer than one year were part of 25 of 130 convictions (19%), compared with 28%. Terms of 5 years or more were the same: 8% of convictions here and 8% Army-wide. One sentence covers all charges in a case, so the records do not show which charge led to which part of a sentence. These are adjudged sentences, before any plea-agreement cap, clemency, or appeal. | Adjudged confinement | Convictions | Share here | Share, all Army convictions in those years | | ------------------------------- | ----------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------ | | No confinement | 31 | 24% | 17% | | Under 6 months | 56 | 43% | 39% | | 6 months to 1 year | 18 | 14% | 16% | | More than 1 year, under 5 years | 14 | 11% | 20% | | 5 years or more | 11 | 8% | 8% | ## Discharges and Dismissals A punitive discharge was part of 62% of enlisted convictions: 49 bad-conduct discharges and 24 dishonorable discharges. Across all Army convictions, the share was 73%. Of 13 convicted officers or warrant officers, 6 were dismissed. Dismissal is the officer equivalent of a punitive discharge. A sentence without one does not rule out a later administrative separation. ## A More Senior Group The accused were 56 junior enlisted soldiers (E-1 to E-4), 61 NCOs (E-5 to E-9), and 13 officers or warrant officers. That mix is more senior than all Army convictions, where 57% were junior enlisted. ## Contested More Often Than Usual Of the 130 convictions, 95 came from guilty pleas and 35 from contested cases, where the accused pleaded not guilty to at least one charge. The contested share of 27% is higher than the 21% across all Army convictions. Of the 95 guilty pleas, 88 are recorded with a plea agreement, and 7 have no entry. Army records say whether an agreement existed, not what it said. This post counts only convictions, so no contested case here ended in a full acquittal. A contested case here could still include a partial acquittal: not guilty of at least one charge or specification and guilty of another. Army results list findings charge by charge. ## Judges, Panels, and Contested Trials A military judge alone decided 110 cases. Members decided 15% of cases with the forum listed: 17 enlisted panels and 3 officer panels. Among contested cases, members decided 19 of 35 (54%). The accused usually chooses the forum. Most judge-alone cases are guilty pleas, so the forum split mostly follows how many cases were contested. ## Sentences at Each Court Level General courts-martial heard 62% of the 127 cases with a court level listed (79 of 127), compared with 72% across all Army convictions. At general courts-martial, the median confinement was 6 months, and 30% of cases were contested. At the 48 special courts-martial, the median was 2 months, and 21% were contested. The court level is not listed for 3 cases. A general court-martial can impose any lawful sentence, including long confinement and a dishonorable discharge. A special court-martial caps confinement at one year and cannot impose a dishonorable discharge. ## Year by Year and Base by Base The number of cases was highest in 2021: 52 in 2021, 31 in 2022, 12 in 2023, 15 in 2024, and 20 in 2025\. The records do not show why the number changed. The services were required to begin publishing trial records under Article 140a by December 2020, and Army records in this data are sparse before 2021. Fort Hood had the most cases (13), followed by Fort Campbell (12), Fort Bliss (10), Fort Sill (8), and Joint Base Lewis-McChord (7). Together they accounted for 38% of the 130\. Larger installations try more cases of every kind. ## Rule Changes and Gaps Since December 28, 2023, special trial counsel, not commanders, decide whether to prosecute covered offenses such as sexual assault, domestic violence, and murder. When every guilty finding in a case is for an offense after December 27, 2023, the military judge sets the sentence within new sentencing parameters. The records give trial dates, not offense dates, so trials from 2024 on include cases under the old rules and the new rules. The records also do not include the evidence, the plea terms, or conduct handled outside a court-martial. For what the offense covers and how it is defended, see [Article 107 on the law firm's website](https://www.ucmj-defender.com/practice-areas/court-martial/article-107/?ref=bodiesburied.com). Dates and sources for the law changes: [UCMJ change timeline](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/ucmj-change-timeline/). ### How We Counted Army courts-martial tried 2021–2025: ending in a conviction under Article 107 (false official statement) (130 cases), compared with all Army convictions in those years. Source: public court-martial records (Article 140a, UCMJ) in [Military Trial Results](https://www.bodiesburied.com/military-trial-results/), data updated October 24, 2026\. Definitions, sources, and known gaps: [how this data was built](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/how-the-military-trial-results-data-was-built/). Errors: content@bodiesburied.com. ## Related Analysis - [Article 107 (False Official Statements): Court-Martial Data and Trends](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/article-107-courts-martial/) (hub) - [Sentences](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/sentences/) (hub) - [Army Article 107 Cases by the Numbers, 2021–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-107-trend-2021-2025/) - [Not Guilty Pleas in Army Article 107 Cases: What Happened at Trial](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-107-acq-2021-2025/) - [Guilty Pleas in Army False Official Statement Cases: How Often, and What Came Next](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-107-plea-2021-2025/) - [What Sentence Follows an Air Force False Official Statement Conviction?](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/air-force-article-107-sent-2016-2025/) (another service) - [Article 107 Sentences in the Navy-Marine Corps: Confinement and Discharges, 2017–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/navy-marine-corps-article-107-sent-2017-2025/) (another service) - [Article 107 explained on the law firm's website](https://www.ucmj-defender.com/practice-areas/court-martial/article-107/?ref=bodiesburied.com) - [Search every case in Military Trial Results](https://www.bodiesburied.com/military-trial-results/) (members) **About the author.** Jocelyn C. Stewart is a retired Army JAG with more than 24 years of trying courts-martial and more than 200 jury trials. She hosts *Where All The Bodies Are Buried* and runs the [Law Office of Jocelyn C. Stewart](https://www.ucmj-defender.com/?ref=bodiesburied.com). This analysis is for education and information only. It is not legal advice, and every case is different.