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DA Form 1714-1 is a DA series document issued for use across the Department of the Army. Official title: DAILY WATER DISTRIBUTION LOG. Purpose: daily water distribution log. The current edition carries the date September 2015 and is listed with a publication status of not stated. The form runs to 1 page(s) and contains approximately 166 entry fields.
Responsibility for content and revision lies with TRADOC. The prescribing directive is ATP 4-44, which sets both the trigger for use and the disposition of the completed document. Entry is made by the named party or by the records clerk holding the file, with review and signature applied in the prescribed order.
Available formats: PDF, XFDL. Each is a rendering of the same official layout; the content is identical across them and only the means of completion differs. The pdf is the reference copy. Fillable pdf carries interactive form fields; a printable pdf is the same page image without them, intended for pen entry after printing.
A pdf opens in any current browser or in a dedicated reader. Fillable behaviour is more reliable in a full reader than in a browser viewer, where some field types render but do not save. An xfdl file is also published. This is the IBM Lotus Forms format used within Army systems; it requires the Lotus Forms Viewer and will not open in a pdf reader or a word processor.
Download of every format is free and requires no account. Files are served as published, without alteration to the page image.
What the form asks for
- AMTDIS
- AMTDIS_1
- AMTDIS_10
- AMTDIS_11
- AMTDIS_12
- AMTDIS_13
- AMTDIS_14
- AMTDIS_15
- AMTDIS_16
- AMTDIS_17
- AMTDIS_18
- AMTDIS_2
- AMTDIS_3
- AMTDIS_4
- AMTDIS_5
- AMTDIS_6
- AMTDIS_7
- AMTDIS_8
- AMTDIS_9
- AMTRCD
- AMTRCD_1
- AMTRCD_10
- AMTRCD_11
- AMTRCD_12
Completion follows the printed sequence of blocks from the top of the page downward. The heading area takes the identifying particulars — name, identification number, organisation, date of preparation. Retrieval of the record from a file depends on these entries, and they are therefore filled first.
Typed entry is made straight into the interactive fields. The tab key moves through them in the order set at build time, generally matching the reading order of the page. Boxes and buttons respond to a click; in an exclusive group, one selection cancels the others. Single-line fields do not wrap, and anything longer than the field width prints cut off although it may still display in full on screen. Extended text goes to remarks or a continuation sheet rather than into a narrow box.
The signature block is the final entry, made by hand or by an authorised electronic method, and without it the document remains a draft. Countersignatures — review, approval, witness — are added in the sequence printed, dated at the moment of signing and not at preparation. Empty mandatory fields lead the list of defects; an inapplicable field is annotated as such, not passed over. Behind it come digit transposition in identification numbers, day-month inversion in dates, and residual entries surviving from a reused copy in place of a blank form.
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Once completed, the form goes where the governing authority directs: to the designated office, along the unit administrative channel, or into the personal file. The preparer retains a copy. The length of retention and the manner of filing are set by the records schedule for the series, not by local arrangement.
Related forms are found by series and number. Documents in the DA series sharing a proponent or a prescribing directive commonly travel together, and a form referenced within the body of another is usually filed with it. Continuation sheets, cover sheets, and transmittal documents belong to this group and are collected before submission rather than after.
Revision by the proponent supersedes an edition. Version is read from the edition date printed on the form itself, and a stored copy is compared against the current edition before it is used again. Documents already executed under an earlier edition are not redone because of the change.
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Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 1714-1?
- DAILY WATER DISTRIBUTION LOG
- Which edition is current?
- September 2015
- Who is responsible for this form?
- TRADOC
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL