Reservable started as one thing: read the message traffic, translate it, put it in your inbox before drill. That still runs every morning. But a bulletin only helps if it happens to be the bulletin you needed, and plenty of the questions you have are not about anything that posted this week.
So the site got wider. Here is everything that went live since the MCRAMM launch, and why each piece is there.
ask RSRVable
Ask a question about drill, points, pay, transfers or separation, and get an answer in seconds.
Where the answer comes from is the part that matters. It draws only on official sources, and it cites the exact paragraph it used, linked, so you can open it and read the original yourself. It will tell you when it does not know. Treat it as a fast way to find the right paragraph. Your S-1 is still your S-1.
Use it when you half-remember a rule and need to be sure before you act on it.
Search that reads the question
The corpus passed 144 bulletins. Category filters stopped being enough, and several of you said so directly.
The search bar on the feed now works on meaning. Type "I am overweight, what happens" and the body composition bulletin comes back, even though the bulletin does not contain a single one of those words. Type a MARADMIN number and you get that bulletin, exactly. Acronyms are expanded before the search runs, so BCP finds the body composition material instead of the Blended Retirement System.
This is the tool for the reservist who knows the problem but not the vocabulary, which is most of us most of the time.
Two generators for drill weekend
The bulletins help you get ready for drill. These help you get through one.
The 6105 counseling entry generator. Pick the deficiency: PFT or CFT failure, body composition, unexcused absence, a test not taken, misconduct. The standard MARCORSEPMAN language fills a genuine NAVMC 118(11), and it opens filled and still editable so you can adjust the specifics before you print it. Nine scenarios are covered, with the entry and acknowledgement laid out the way the form expects.
The counseling sheet generator. Build a NAVMC 2795 in a few minutes and download a ready-to-edit Word document.
One rule governs both: nothing you type is stored. The documents are built in your browser, on your device, and the contents never reach our servers. That is how the code works, so there is nothing to take our word for. It is also why they keep running when the armory wifi does not.
The bulletins themselves
A bulletin usually sends you somewhere else and then leaves you to go find it. Four changes aimed at that.
- Resources and references. Each bulletin now carries the official documents, forms and pages it points to, gathered in one block at the bottom, with CAC-required links marked as such so you know before you tap.
- Related bulletins. Policy arrives in pieces over months. Each bulletin now links the ones around it.
- Listen instead of read. Most bulletins have narration now, for the commute.
- Save for later. Keep the ones you need in front of you on drill weekend.
Follow the topics you care about
One more, in case you have not found it in your settings: you can follow specific topics, and hear the same day a MARADMIN posts on one of them, instead of waiting for your next digest. Everything else still arrives on your normal schedule.
You can set that on your settings page, along with whether you want daily, weekly or monthly email.
What this is not
None of this is official. Reservable is written by a reservist, for reservists, and it is not affiliated with HQMC, MARFORRES, or the Department of Defense. The generators produce a correctly formatted document, not legal or administrative advice, and an answer with a citation is a place to start, not authority to act. Verify with your command or your S-1 before anything goes in a record.
If something here is wrong, tell us. The feedback widget is on every page and a person reads it.
Semper Fi.