For Marines leaving active duty
WARFARE COMMAND

Plan your separation or retirement from the paragraphs that govern it.

Muster Out is a personal separation and retirement planner for Marines. It puts your dated tasks on a board in your Claude account, with the quoted source for each regulation task. The MARADMIN watch lists new messages that may affect the plan.

Unofficial pilot. Muster Out adds no charge. Claude Pro costs $20 a month. Setup needs a Mac or Windows laptop and 30 to 45 minutes.

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The tools
Live pilot, version 0.1.1

Muster Out

A personal separation and retirement planner for Marines.

Setup is one 30 to 45 minute session on a laptop. Three required answers set the plan, and Claude publishes a board to your account with dated tasks across up to seven lines of effort: separation, SkillBridge, VA and medical, Reserve affiliation (DAP), leave and pay, family and coverage, and turnover.

Covers
Resigning a regular commission, officer retirement, and separation at EAS, officer or enlisted. Enlisted retirement in part. DAP and SkillBridge as options.
Not covered
Medical separation and IDES, involuntary separation, and Guard and Reserve retirement. For these you get the office to call, not a plan.
Needs
Claude Pro at $20 a month and a Mac or Windows laptop for setup. After setup, a phone is enough for the board.
Data
Anthropic hosts the board in your Claude account. The maintainers have no account on it.
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Example taskRET 01 SEP 2027
Submit the retirement request by unit diary
01 DEC 2026E-274, target

Planning target, not a deadline. MARADMIN 175/24 allows 18 to 6 months before the requested date. MCO 1900.16 para 2004.1 says 14 to 4 months. The board's 9 month target sits inside both windows.

MARADMIN 175/24, para 2"requests for retirement or resignation will be submitted not more than 18 months and not less than six months prior to the requested retirement or resignation date."
ConfirmIPAC and MMSR-2: confirm routing, submission date, the governing window and 120 days plus desired leave/PTAD before the requested action date.
Demo data for an officer retiring on 1 SEP 2027.
Live, weekly

MARADMIN watch

Every Monday a scheduled job reads the past week's MARADMINs from marines.mil and lists the ones that may touch a separation, retirement, Reserve, SkillBridge, VA, leave, or family plan. Each notice links to the official message. The page is public and needs no account.

It reads MARADMINs only. ALMARs, VA notices, and DoD notices are outside it.

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Planned

More paths and other services

Medical separation, involuntary separation, Guard and Reserve retirement, and other services are not covered. Each needs its own regulation pack before Muster Out builds a plan for it. Until then, the coverage page names the office to contact.

Coverage

How Muster Out handles sources, dates, data, and review

01
The paragraph behind the task

Tasks drawn from a regulation carry the quoted paragraph and a link to the source: MCO 1900.16, MCO 1050.3J, NAVMC 1700.2B, the MARADMINs, the SkillBridge MOU, and the VA and TAP guides. The pack keeps a copy of each cited source, and a script checks every quote against those copies. The copies are snapshots, so open the official source for current wording.

02
Three kinds of date

A rule deadline is a date or window the cited text requires; it may hang on your separation date or on another event. A planning target is a date selected for planning, and the board marks it as a target. Any window the cited regulation sets still governs. A confirmed event is a date you set after an approval or a booking. Change your date and every date counted from it moves with it.

03
Your account, your data

Anthropic hosts the board in your Claude account, under your login. The maintainers have no account on it, and the board sends them nothing. Two optional submissions, a setup count and lesson results, go to the project database only if you say yes.

04
Review status

An independent model review checked every cited item against its source on 09 OCT 2026. Its corrections are in this release and were rechecked by a second review. No office has approved the pack; confirm what applies to you with IPAC, your TAP counselor, your VSO, and your command.