What you'll do · about two minutes
What this costs today
Award citations follow a fixed structure under Army Regulation 600-8-22: a set opening by award, a third-person body, and a standard closing line. The facts take five minutes: what the soldier did, over what period. Then you burn the rest on voice and line count, and it comes back anyway. Most get written late, by a squad or platoon leader who would rather be doing almost anything else.
† Author's estimate from the times above; the Army publishes no annual citation count, so the figure is per 100,000 instances. Assumes recovered hours are protected from new tasking.
Give the assistant the facts
→ Do this: press Load example & draft for the fast path, or fill the seven fields below and press Draft citation. Either way you land on a finished draft in step 3.
In a hurry? Load a filled-in example and skip straight to the draft. It plants one deliberate error for you to catch.
Or enter your own. Just the facts a leader would already have. No regulation language, no formatting; that part is the template’s job. Leave a field blank and the draft shows you the gap. A tool that quietly fills in what it was never told is the thing we are trying to avoid, so this one will not do it.
Read what it wrote
→ Waiting on step 2. Draft a citation above and it will appear here.
The template pulls the set opening for the award you picked, works your facts into the body in third person, and adds the standard closing line.
Verify every fact, then sign
→ Waiting on step 2. Once you have a draft, each fact you supplied appears here for individual confirmation.
The model never decides who earns an award. On this page you cannot sign until you have confirmed every fact against the draft, one at a time. That friction is on purpose. We have all clicked "I acknowledge" without reading it, and nobody needs another one of those.
Signed. Here is what that cost you.
You still did the part that mattered. Every fact came from you, and your name is on it. The typing went away. So did the version of this where a tired leader signs from memory at 1900 on a Friday and nobody can reconstruct what was checked.