Uniform Code of Military Justice
Article 167. Tampering with a Judicial or Administrative Record.
(a) A person subject to this Code is guilty under this Article when, with intent to deceive, conceal, obstruct, retaliate, or produce an unauthorized legal or administrative result, the person knowingly—
(i) alters;
(ii) destroys;
(iii) conceals;
(iv) removes;
(v) backdates;
(vi) fabricates; or
(vii) causes unauthorized modification of
a judicial, disciplinary, personnel, investigative, or other official military record.
(b) Lawful amendment, correction, sealing, redaction, archival action, expungement, purge, or records management performed under proper authority does not constitute an offense.
(c) A person guilty under this Article shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.