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DA Form 2662-R is a Department of the Army form in the DA series. Title of record: UNITED STATES ARMY EPW IDENTITY CARD (LRA). Function: united states army epw identity card (lra). The edition presently published bears the date 05/01/1982, with a status of ACTIVE. Physical extent is 1 page(s) and about 82 fillable fields.
Responsibility for content and revision lies with PMG. The prescribing directive is AR 190-8, 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.
Formats offered: PDF, XFDL. All are the same published layout in different containers, and the choice between them is a matter of how the entries will be made rather than what appears on the page. The pdf serves as the authoritative rendering. A fillable pdf exposes editable fields on screen; a printable pdf is the blank form as a flat page for handwriting.
The pdf displays in current browsers and in any reader application. For fillable use a full reader is preferable to a browser viewer, since viewers vary in whether entered data is retained. An xfdl file is available too. The format is IBM Lotus Forms, in use across Army form systems, and it opens only in the Lotus Forms Viewer.
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What the form asks for
- BLDTYPE
- COLEYES
- COLHR
- ContentArea1
- DATE
- DTOFBTH
- FSTNME
- GRADE
- HEIGHT
- IDENCATN
- LSTNME
- PLCBTH
- POWSERV
- Page1
- R59
- R60
- R61
- R62
- R63
- R64
- R65
- R66
- R67
- R68
The blocks are worked through in the order they appear on the sheet. At the head sit the identifying entries: name, identification number, unit, date. Because the filed record is indexed on these, they precede everything substantive.
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 completed last and by hand or by an accepted electronic means. An unsigned form is a draft. Where a second signature is called for — reviewing official, approving authority, witness — each is applied in the order the blocks appear and dated as of application, not as of preparation. Blank mandatory fields are the most frequent defect; a nil entry is marked as such rather than left empty. Other recurring faults: transposed digits in identification numbers, dates in the wrong order of day and month, and stale copies retaining prior data because a working file was reused instead of a fresh blank form.
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Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 2662-R?
- UNITED STATES ARMY EPW IDENTITY CARD (LRA)
- Which edition is current?
- 05/01/1982
- Who is responsible for this form?
- PMG
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL, PDF
Publisher notes
- 41-ITEM ALSO PRODUCED IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA