JAG: Desert Son (1995)
Season 1, Episode 4
8/10
"Desert Son"
14 April 2023
Harm and Meg are in Twenty Nine Palms following a live fire accident where the wrong coordinates were communicated from Marine spotters to the artillery crew. The spotter in question was the son of the Marine commandant, a reluctant soldier following in the footsteps of his father and brother. As it turns out, father and son do not get on at all. Add that familial discontent to the fact that a Marine artillery captain seems to be stonewalling the investigation process in various ways, and there is plenty for the JAG investigators to unpack and unravel.

Dale Dye features as a Marine sergeant - I love Dye, a Marine Corps veteran who saw service in the Vietnam War, in everything - and a random cameo from Oliver North, who plays "Ollie" (zero marks for originality when naming that somewhat mysterious character) and who, of course, gained some notoriety from the Iran-Contra affair.

Another good episode in what I think is JAG's forgotten season. David James Elliott and Tracy Needham have an easy chemistry between them.
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