CheckMyRegs is a free, unofficial index of public military publications. You can search it without an account, and we do not ask for your name, unit, rank, or service details.
The file is not uploaded. When you drop a publication on any page here, your browser opens
it on your own computer, reads the publication number and the date printed on it, and sends us
only those two things — for example DAFI 36-2903 and 2024-02-29.
The document itself, and its file name, never leave your machine. The currency-check API has no file
field to send them to.
That is deliberate. This tool is for people looking at a publication on a work computer, where sending the document to an unofficial website is exactly the thing you should not do. A publication number and a date are public facts about a public document; we record the number so we can see which publications people are checking and which ones this index is missing.
A document that cites other publications works the same way. Drop a briefing
(.pptx) or a Word document (.docx) and your browser reads its slide or body
text on your machine and sends us only the publication designators it found — strings
like AR 350-1 and OPNAVINST 5100.19 — so we can tell you which of them
have been superseded since the document was written. Each one has to begin with a series on our own
published list, so what can leave a sensitive document is bounded by that list rather than by the
document's contents. The slides, the body text, the file name and the file itself stay on your
machine; there is no endpoint here that accepts them. A PowerPoint 97–2003 .ppt
cannot be read in the browser at all and is not checked — save it as .pptx first.
If any of those citations has a verified successor, we can hand back a corrected copy with the old designators swapped for the current ones. That copy is assembled on your computer from the file you dropped — it is not built here and not sent here, and the download comes from your own browser's memory. Only the citation strings on your slides and in your speaker notes are changed; layouts, masters, images and your own wording are copied through untouched. A citation your software split across two pieces of formatting is deliberately left alone and reported back to you instead, because stitching it together risks the file.
This matters more for a briefing than for a publication. A regulation is cleared for public release; a unit's own deck is not, and may carry material marked FOUO or CUI, or a roster. That is precisely why the reading happens on your computer and not ours.
A dropped file we cannot read a publication number off — a memo, a photo, a Word document — is placed in the ask box's attachment slot instead, still on your machine and still unsent. It is only transmitted if you then press Ask, which is the same explicit act as attaching it yourself; from that point the section below applies.
The Ask page is different, and you should know how before you use it. A file you attach there is sent to this server, because answering the question requires reading it. It is held in memory only for as long as it takes to produce the answer, is passed to the AI model that writes the answer, and is never written to disk here and never kept. We store the question text, not the attachment. Do not attach anything containing personal information about yourself or anyone else, and do not attach anything marked CUI, FOUO or otherwise controlled.
We do not sell or rent your email address, we do not send marketing to addresses given for a publication watch, and we do not require a login to read anything on this site. Every watch email carries an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing deletes the watch.
Use the feedback button in the corner of any page — it reaches the maintainer directly and is the fastest route for a wrong status, a missing publication, or a removal request. Tell us the publication number and what looks wrong, and include the page URL if you can.
Everything indexed here is a public, unclassified publication record drawn from official government portals, and each entry links back to its official source. If you believe a record is wrong, out of date, or should not be listed, report it through the feedback button and we will correct or remove it.
CheckMyRegs is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or an official product of the Department of Defense or any military service. The controlling copy of any publication is the one on its official portal.