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DA Form 3266-1 is a Department of the Army form in the DA series. Title of record: ARMY MISSILE MATERIEL READINESS REPORT. Function: army missile materiel readiness report. The edition presently published bears the date 04/01/1993, 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 AR 700-138, 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.
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.
All formats are free to download and no registration is involved. The files are the published documents, distributed unmodified.
What the form asks for
- AUTH
- ContentArea1
- DATE_NON
- DATE_NON_1
- DATE_NON_10
- DATE_NON_2
- DATE_NON_3
- DATE_NON_4
- DATE_NON_5
- DATE_NON_6
- DATE_NON_7
- DATE_NON_8
- DATE_NON_9
- DODAAC
- DSN
- DS_GS_JOB
- DS_GS_JOB_1
- DS_GS_JOB_10
- DS_GS_JOB_2
- DS_GS_JOB_3
- DS_GS_JOB_4
- DS_GS_JOB_5
- DS_GS_JOB_6
- DS_GS_JOB_7
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.
Signature comes at the end, applied in ink or by an accepted electronic method. Until it is applied the document is a draft. Additional signatures — reviewer, approver, witness — are taken in printed block order, each dated when signed rather than when the form was drafted. The commonest error is a mandatory field left blank; where nothing applies, the entry is marked accordingly instead of being skipped. Transposed identification digits, day and month reversed in dates, and carried-over data from a reused working copy account for most of the remainder.
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The completed form is routed as the governing authority prescribes: to the office named in the directive, through the unit administrative channel, or into the individual's file, depending on the case. A copy is retained by the preparer. Filing and retention follow the records schedule applicable to the series rather than local practice.
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.
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 3266-1?
- ARMY MISSILE MATERIEL READINESS REPORT
- Which edition is current?
- 04/01/1993
- Who is responsible for this form?
- G-4
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL, PDF
Publisher notes
- 42-ITEM ONLY PRODUCED IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA