MEL - Exercise Planner

MEL is the fast, offline way to plan and document a training exercise end to end — from the nominal roll to the main event list to the road move — and produce clean, inspection-ready paperwork in seconds. Built for reserve units, cadet forces, uniformed organisations and anyone who runs structured exercises, MEL replaces the tangle of spreadsheets and half-finished Word templates with one tool that keeps every annex in step. PLAN EVERY ANNEX IN ONE PLACE • Annex A — Nominal Roll: a reusable personnel database with rank, service number, detachment, troop, roles and qualifications. Live totals by rank (Officer / SNCO / JNCO / Mne) and a per-detachment breakdown that updates as you build the roll. Trained Strength, Additional and Recruit groups, plus a Ranks Withdrawn list. • Annex B — Training Objectives: a master library of objectives and enabling objectives. Tick-select the ones for this exercise; reorder and number automatically. • Annex C — MEL (Main Event List): a day-by-day event schedule with time, location, event, responsible person and remarks. Mark serials complete, drag to reorder, and start from a built-in standard weekend template. • Annex D — Move Order: vehicle moves with drivers and auto passenger counts, saved destinations, and driving distance and time worked out for you, with routes and RVs. TURN PLANS INTO PAPERWORK • Export every annex to PDF, Microsoft Word (.rtf) and CSV. • Crisp, paginated A4 output with an OFFICIAL header and footer and page numbering — tables never split awkwardly across a page break. • Portrait or landscape, with a document design that matches a professional house style. TRACK WHO ACTUALLY TURNED UP • A live attendance register, separate from the planning roll. • Record arrival and departure date and time, or switch to a percentage-per-day mode (great for travel days at 50% and full days at 100%). • Bulk-edit attendance for whole sections at once, and export a dedicated register. VERSIONS & AMENDMENTS • Snapshot the MEL as you issue amendments, view any past version, and restore or duplicate an exercise from it. FORMATS THAT FIT YOUR UNIT • 24-hour, 12-hour or Zulu time; military or civilian date styles. • Import personnel and objectives from CSV to get started fast. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Everything stays on your device. No account, no cloud, no iCloud sync. • Your data is protected at rest by iOS device encryption. • A built-in demo exercise lets you explore a fully populated app — the demo data is entirely fictional and is never saved. MEL works completely offline, so it is ready in the field, in the classroom or in the planning office. Plan it once, export it everywhere.