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DA Form 3120 — MISSILE FIRING DATA REPORT (PATRIOT)

missile firing data report (hawk & patriot)

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DA Form 3120 is a DA series document issued for use across the Department of the Army. Official title: MISSILE FIRING DATA REPORT (PATRIOT). Purpose: missile firing data report (hawk & patriot). The current edition carries the date 06/01/2021 and is listed with a publication status of ACTIVE. The form runs to 2 page(s) and contains approximately 200 entry fields.

The office of primary responsibility is G-4. Use is prescribed by PAM 700-16, which defines when the form is raised and where it goes afterward. The form is normally completed by the subject of the entries or by administrative personnel maintaining the record, then reviewed and signed as the governing authority directs. A more recent edition has been published. This edition is superseded; it remains available for reference and for files already executed against it.

Available formats: PDF. 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.

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.

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What the form asks for

  • ALTITD
  • ARTILL
  • BATTERY
  • CLASS
  • COND_A
  • COND_B
  • COND_C
  • COND_D
  • COND_E
  • ContentArea1
  • DATE_LD
  • DECLASS
  • DOPP_N
  • DOPP_Y
  • ECM_N
  • ECM_Y
  • EVAL_REM
  • FIRE_A
  • FIRE_B
  • FIRE_C
  • FIRE_D
  • FIRE_E
  • FROM
  • LOCAT

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 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.

Where personal information is gathered, the form carries a Privacy Act statement giving the collection authority, the purpose, the routine uses, and the mandatory or voluntary character of the disclosure. It is read before entries are made rather than afterwards. A completed copy holds personal data and is stored and transmitted under the corresponding safeguards.

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.

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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 3120?
MISSILE FIRING DATA REPORT (PATRIOT)
Which edition is current?
06/01/2021
Who is responsible for this form?
G-4
In which formats can it be downloaded?
PDF, PDF

Publisher notes

  1. 42-ITEM ONLY PRODUCED IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA,

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