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- Commissioned in the infantry after graduating first in order of merit from the United States Military Academy in 1983, Brigadier General Martins served as a platoon leader and staff officer in the 82d Airborne Division.
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- Mark Steven Martins (born July 26, 1960) is a retired United States Army officer.
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Mark Martins
Brigadier General Mark Martins graduated first in his 1983 West Point class. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, graduating from Balliol College at the University of Oxford in 1985 with 1st class honors. Martins commissioned into the Infantry Branch of the US Army, and served as a platoon leader in the 82nd Airborne Division in 1983. In 1987, he was accepted into the Army’s Funded Legal Education Program and attended Harvard Law School. Following his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1990, Martins became a judge advocate in the United States Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Martins has held numerous military legal positions. These include Trial Counsel, Chief of Legal Assistance, Chief of Administrative Law, Operational Law Attorney, and Senior Trial Counsel for the 101st Airborne Division. Martins was also the Instructor of International and Operational Law and Deputy Director of the Center for Law and Military Operations. Martins led the Rule of Law Campaign for Multi-National Force – Iraq, and he was the Deputy Commanding General of Join
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In September 2011, Brigadier General Martins became Chief Prosecutor of Military Commissions. Over the previous year, in Afghanistan, Martins was commander of the Rule of Law Field Force-Afghanistan and of the dual-hat NATO Rule of Law Field Support Mission. The prior year, also in Afghanistan, he had served as the first and Interim Commander of Joint Task Force 435 and then as its first Deputy Commander upon Senate Confirmation of Vice Admiral Robert Harward. In these roles, Brigadier General Martins led the effort to reform United States detention operations in Afghanistan and provided field support to Afghan and international civilian rule of law project teams in contested provinces of the country. Immediately prior to his deployment to Afghanistan, Brigadier General Martins co-led the interagency Detention Policy Task Force created by President Obama in January 2009. Commissioned in the infantry after graduating first in order of merit from the United States Military Academy in 1983, Brigadier General Martins served as a platoon leader and staff officer in the 82d Airborne Div
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Sam Adelsberg
Sam is currently an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York as well as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserves. He previously served as a Special Counsel at the FBI focusing on cyber investigations and encryption policy and as a Privacy and Cybersecurity Fellow at Sidewalk Labs, the urban-innovation arm of Google's parent company, Alphabet. Sam also served as a Special Advisor to the Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, David Cohen, and as a Special Assistant to the Chief Prosecutor for the Military Commissions, Brigadier General Mark Martins.
Sam received his J.D. from Yale Law School after graduating with Phi Beta Kappa honors from the University of Pennsylvania. He has served as a law clerk to Judge José A. Cabranes of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Jesse M. Furman of the Southern District of New York. Sam has written for the New York Times, the Atlantic, and Politico, among other publications.
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