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DA Form 2408-4-1 — WEAPON RECORD DATA

weapon record data

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DA Form 2408-4-1 is a Department of the Army form in the DA series. Title of record: WEAPON RECORD DATA. Function: weapon record data. The edition presently published bears the date 10/01/1991, with a status of ACTIVE. Physical extent is 2 page(s) and about 200 fillable fields.

Responsibility for content and revision lies with G-4. The prescribing directive is PAM 738-751, 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.

Distributed formats: PDF, XFDL. The layout is common to all of them; what varies is the method of entry. The pdf is the reference version. In the fillable pdf the entry areas are live objects that accept typing; in the printable version the same areas are inert and are filled by hand after printing.

Any modern browser or reader will display a pdf. Interactive fields behave more predictably in a standalone reader than in an in-browser viewer, which sometimes shows fields it cannot store. An xfdl copy is published as well. It is IBM Lotus Forms, the format carried by several Army systems, and it needs the Lotus Forms Viewer; pdf readers and word processors will not open it.

All formats are free to download and no registration is involved. The files are the published documents, distributed unmodified.

What the form asks for

  • CANMOD_A
  • CANMOD_A_1
  • CANMOD_A_2
  • CANMOD_A_3
  • CANMOD_A_4
  • CANMOD_A_5
  • CANMOD_A_6
  • CANMOD_A_7
  • CANMOD_A_8
  • CANMOD_A_9
  • CANMOD_B
  • CANMOD_B_1
  • CANMOD_B_10
  • CANMOD_B_2
  • CANMOD_B_3
  • CANMOD_B_4
  • CANMOD_B_5
  • CANMOD_B_6
  • CANMOD_B_7
  • CANMOD_B_8
  • CANMOD_B_9
  • CUMUL_A
  • CUMUL_A_1
  • CUMUL_A_2

Entry proceeds block by block in the order printed on the page. Identifying particulars occupy the head of the form: name, identification number, unit or organisation, and date of preparation. These fields govern how the record is later retrieved from the file, so they are completed before any substantive block.

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.

Forms that collect personal information bear a Privacy Act statement covering authority, purpose, routine uses, and whether the disclosure is required or optional. Reading it precedes completion. Once filled, the document contains personal data and is subject to the handling and storage rules that attach to such records.

Disposition of the completed document follows the prescribing authority — delivery to the office it names, transmission through the unit administrative channel, or placement in the individual's record, according to circumstance. The preparer keeps a copy. Retention is governed by the applicable records schedule, not by office custom.

Associated documents are located through the series and number scheme. Forms in the DA series with the same proponent or the same prescribing directive tend to be used as a set, and any form named on the face of another normally accompanies it. Continuations, cover sheets, and transmittals fall into this category and are gathered before the package is sent.

An edition stands until the proponent issues a revision. The printed edition date identifies the version, and a copy held locally is checked against the edition now in force before reuse. Prior executions under a superseded edition are not reopened for that reason.

The files here are reproductions of published Department of the Army documents, provided for download. This site is not part of the Department of the Army and issues no forms of its own. Nothing on this page is legal advice, and no representation is made as to acceptance of a document by any office. Where an entry, a requirement, or a question of eligibility is in doubt, the proponent or the servicing administrative office answers it.

Questions and answers

What is DA Form 2408-4-1?
WEAPON RECORD DATA
Which edition is current?
10/01/1991
Who is responsible for this form?
G-4
In which formats can it be downloaded?
PDF, XFDL, PDF

Publisher notes

  1. 44-CRITICAL ITEM
  2. 41-ITEM ALSO PRODUCED IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA

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