Defense, Prosecution (and a JAG may be one in one trial, the other in the next, depending on location and size of the JAG contingent) and the military Judge, who is also a JAG officer, usually only slightly more senior than the other two, are all supposed to be going after the truth, not blindly defending a client, or going after a defendent, regardless of the facts of the case.
Of course that is the ideal, and like any organization, individual goals and the need to "stand out" may pervert that concept. That is what seems to have happened. But then again my brief experience with all that, as member of a panel (not a full court martial, but run much the same) was 33 years ago, so what do I know?
I wouldn't too suprised to find NPR has grossly distorted what Lt. Col. Vokey had to say.
But then, they are the worse of the Drive By Media, even though they can hardly be called "Mainstream".
No, NPR is actually quite moderate compared to what Michael Savage has had to say on this subject. NPR appears to have been rather charitable to the USMC here compared to Savage.