Army Grad Week
The BMT guide worked, but Army families needed the same help across several posts. This is the version built for them.
The home page leads with a live countdown to the next BCT graduation, then lets you choose your post. Fort Jackson, Benning, Sill, and Leonard Wood all run from the same data model: schedules, base access rules, and lodging generated per installation.
Open a post and a Family Stories banner leads into five steps: timeline, gates and arrival, hotels, rental car, and logistics. The same guided flow renders for all four installations from a single base switcher.
The one-input planning model from BMT Grad Week, ported here. Enter one date and the plan derives ceremony timing, gates, hotels, and a packing list, or pick a cycle straight from the calendar, which lists ship date alongside grad date and Family Day.
Family Day gets the same weight as the ceremony. A pre-registration callout flags the AIE background check up front, since the review can take up to 30 business days, next to hotel and rental-car booking cards, the hour-by-hour timeline, Guard and Reserve pass exceptions, and a quick-answers FAQ.
Graduation morning at a glance: parade time, gate, duration, and guest rules, with its own section covering what happens if weather moves the ceremony. The answers a family needs at 7 AM on Thursday.
About this build
The email side runs on the same Cloudflare Worker that serves BMT Grad Week, but Army's cadence keys off ship date and training track instead of the countdown to graduation. A subscriber's post and OSUT track decide whether they ride the seven-email BCT-2 through BCT-8 sequence or the eleven-email OSUT-2 through OSUT-12 arc across an eighteen-week cycle, recomputed fresh on every cron run. The same Stay22-backed hotel-pricing worker built for BMT backs Army too, gated behind its own manifest and rollout flag. A first-party flow-tracking worker forwards session beacons past ad blockers, tagged by site so the data never crosses tenants.
- Email worker: the same multi-tenant Worker that serves BMT Grad Week also serves armygradweek.com, sharing one daily send budget so a spike in either brand can't blow the combined quota
- Training-scope branching: a subscriber's post and OSUT track (Benning infantry/armor, Leonard Wood engineer/military police) decide their whole email arc, recomputed fresh every cron run
- Two cadences, one engine: BCT posts get a seven-email BCT-2 through BCT-8 sequence timed to ship date; OSUT tracks get an eleven-email OSUT-2 through OSUT-12 arc across an eighteen-week cycle
- Hotel-price worker: the Stay22-backed pricing worker built for BMT Grad Week backs Army Grad Week too, resolving one authenticated supplier call per stay behind Army's own manifest
- Shared rate governance: a Durable Object caps the pricing worker's Stay22 budget at 100 calls a minute across both sites, and every response carries Cache-Control: no-store
- Bounded post-grad mail: the Family Stories invite fires only in a 4-to-14-day window after graduation, so flipping the feature on can't blast years of past subscribers at once
- Flow-tracking worker: a first-party Worker proxies session beacons to a shared tracking sheet, tagging every event by site so Army's traffic never lands in BMT's data