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# Article 115 (Malingering Before 2019, Communicating Threats Since): Court-Martial Data and Trends
- URL: https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/article-115-courts-martial/
- Published: 2026-10-28T06:56:21.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-30T08:22:56.000Z
- Description: Analysis of the 296 Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps courts-martial in the data that charged Article 115 (Malingering before 2019, communicating threats since).
- Author: Jocelyn C. Stewart
- Tags: Understanding Trends, Article 115, #trends-hub

[Trends](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/) › [By Offense](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/by-offense/) › Article 115

Analysis of the 296 Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps courts-martial in the data that charged Article 115 (Malingering before 2019, communicating threats since).

## By Service

- [Army Article 115 Cases by the Numbers, 2021–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-115-trend-2021-2025/)
- [Air Force Article 115 Cases by the Numbers, 2021–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/air-force-article-115-trend-2021-2025/)
- [Fewer or More? Communicating Threats Charges at Navy-Marine Corps Courts-Martial, 2021–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/navy-marine-corps-article-115-trend-2021-2025/)

## Sentences

- [How Much Confinement for an Article 115 Conviction in the Army?](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-115-sent-2021-2025/)
- [What Sentence Follows an Air Force Communicating Threats Conviction?](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/air-force-article-115-sent-2021-2025/)
- [How Much Confinement for an Article 115 Conviction in the Navy-Marine Corps?](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/navy-marine-corps-article-115-sent-2021-2025/)

## Contested Cases and Acquittals

- [Fighting an Army Communicating Threats Charge: How Contested Cases Ended](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-115-acq-2021-2025/)

## Guilty Pleas

- [Guilty Pleas in Army Communicating Threats Cases: How Often, and What Came Next](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-115-plea-2021-2025/)
- [Pleading Guilty to Article 115 in the Air Force: What Sentences Followed?](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/air-force-article-115-plea-2021-2025/)
- [Pleading Guilty to Article 115 in the Navy-Marine Corps: What Sentences Followed?](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/navy-marine-corps-article-115-plea-2021-2025/)

## Year by Year

- [How Army Communicating Threats Cases Ended in 2021](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-115-2021/)
- [Army Article 115 Cases in 2022](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-115-2022/)
- [Army Article 115 Cases in 2023](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-115-2023/)
- [Communicating Threats at Army Courts-Martial, 2024: The Year in Numbers](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-115-2024/)
- [Navy-Marine Corps Article 115 Cases in 2021](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/navy-marine-corps-article-115-2021/)

## By Rank

- [Army Communicating Threats Cases Against Junior Enlisted (E-1 to E-4): Outcomes and Sentences](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-115-junior-enlisted/)
- [NCOs (E-5 to E-9) Charged Under Article 115 in the Army](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-115-ncos/)
- [What Happens to Air Force Junior Enlisted (E-1 to E-4) Facing Communicating Threats Charges?](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/air-force-article-115-junior-enlisted/)
- [NCOs (E-5 to E-9) Charged Under Article 115 in the Air Force](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/air-force-article-115-ncos/)
- [Navy-Marine Corps Communicating Threats Cases Against Junior Enlisted (E-1 to E-4): Outcomes and Sentences](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/navy-marine-corps-article-115-junior-enlisted/)

## Charged Together With Other Articles

- [Communicating Threats Plus Assault: Courts-Martial Charging Articles 115 and 128](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/article-115-and-article-128-charged-together/)
- [When Article 115 and Article 128b Are Charged Together, How Do Cases End?](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/article-115-and-article-128b-charged-together/)
- [When Article 115 and Article 92 Are Charged Together, How Do Cases End?](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/article-115-and-article-92-charged-together/)
- [When Article 115 and Article 134 Are Charged Together, How Do Cases End?](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/article-115-and-article-134-charged-together/)
- [Communicating Threats Plus Sexual Assault: Courts-Martial Charging Articles 115 and 120](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/article-115-and-article-120-charged-together/)
- [Articles 115 and 90 in the Same Case: What the Records Show](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/article-115-and-article-90-charged-together/)
- [When Article 115 and Article 131b Are Charged Together, How Do Cases End?](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/article-115-and-article-131b-charged-together/)
- [Articles 115 and 80 in the Same Case: What the Records Show](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/article-115-and-article-80-charged-together/)
- [When Article 109 and Article 115 Are Charged Together, How Do Cases End?](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/article-109-and-article-115-charged-together/)
- [Articles 115 and 129 in the Same Case: What the Records Show](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/article-115-and-article-129-charged-together/)
- [Articles 107 and 115 in the Same Case: What the Records Show](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/article-107-and-article-115-charged-together/)
- [Communicating Threats Plus Larceny: Courts-Martial Charging Articles 115 and 121](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/article-115-and-article-121-charged-together/)

## Charged Together, by Service

- [Army Cases Charging Both Article 115 and Article 120](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-115-and-article-120-charged-together/)
- [Army Cases Charging Both Article 115 and Article 128b](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-115-and-article-128b-charged-together/)
- [Army Cases Charging Both Article 115 and Article 90](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-115-and-article-90-charged-together/)
- [Army Courts-Martial With Article 115 and Article 92, 2021–2026](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-115-and-article-92-charged-together/)
- [Article 115 With Article 128 in the Army: What the Records Show](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-115-and-article-128-charged-together/)
- [Article 115 With Article 134 in the Army: What the Records Show](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-115-and-article-134-charged-together/)
- [Navy-Marine Corps Cases Charging Both Article 115 and Article 128](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/navy-marine-corps-article-115-and-article-128-charged-together/)

## Counsel of Record

- [Army Defense Counsel in Contested Article 115 Cases: Prior Cases and Verdicts, 2023–2026](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-115-defense-counsel-experience-2023-2026/)
- [Who Prosecuted Contested Army Article 115 Cases? Trial Counsel Experience, 2023–2026](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-115-trial-counsel-experience-2023-2026/)

## Judge Alone or Members

- [Army Article 115 Trials Before a Military Judge Alone: Verdicts and Sentences](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-115-contested-judge-alone-2021-2025/)
- [Contested Army Article 115 Cases Decided by Members (A Panel)](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-115-contested-members-2021-2025/)

What the offense covers: [Article 115 on the law firm's website](https://www.ucmj-defender.com/practice-areas/court-martial/article-115/?ref=bodiesburied.com).

How this data was built: [methodology and known gaps](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/how-the-military-trial-results-data-was-built/).

**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.