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DA Form 3169 is a DA series document issued for use across the Department of the Army. Official title: REPORT OF JUDICIAL DISCIPLINARY ACTIVITY IN THE ARMY. Purpose: report of judicial disciplinary activity in the army. The current edition carries the date September 2002 and is listed with a publication status of not stated. The form runs to 2 page(s) and contains approximately 200 entry fields.
Responsibility for content and revision lies with TJAG. The prescribing directive is AR 27-10, 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.
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.
All formats are free to download and no registration is involved. The files are the published documents, distributed unmodified.
What the form asks for
- CONOFF_A
- CONOFF_A_1
- CONOFF_A_2
- CONOFF_A_3
- CONOFF_B
- CONOFF_B_1
- CONOFF_B_2
- CONOFF_B_3
- CONOFF_B_4
- CONOFF_B_5
- CONOFF_C
- CONOFF_D
- CONOFF_D_1
- CONOFF_D_2
- CONOFF_D_3
- CONOFF_D_4
- CONOFF_D_5
- CONOFF_E
- ContentArea1
- ContentArea2
- DISTRIB
- DISTRIB_1
- DISTRIB_2
- DISTRIB_3
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.
Interactive fields are filled by typing into them. Movement between fields is by tab, following the order established when the form was constructed, which usually tracks the page layout. Check boxes and radio groups are set by clicking, and exclusive groups permit one selection at a time. A one-line field has no wrap: text beyond its width prints truncated even when the screen shows it. Overlong content is placed in remarks or on a continuation, not forced into the field.
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.
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Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 3169?
- REPORT OF JUDICIAL DISCIPLINARY ACTIVITY IN THE ARMY
- Which edition is current?
- September 2002
- Who is responsible for this form?
- TJAG
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL