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DA Form 3479 is a DA series document issued for use across the Department of the Army. Official title: TRAINING AND PROFICIENCY RECORD - AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER. Purpose: training and proficiency record - air traffic controller. The current edition carries the date 10/01/2019 and is listed with a publication status of ACTIVE. The form runs to 15 page(s) and contains approximately 200 entry fields.
The office of primary responsibility is T2COM. Use is prescribed by TC 3-04.15, 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 This edition is superseded; it remains available for reference and for files already executed against it.
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.
Download of every format is free and requires no account. Files are served as published, without alteration to the page image.
What the form asks for
- ASGD_INITIAL
- ASR_C
- ASR_C_1
- ASR_C_10
- ASR_C_11
- ASR_C_2
- ASR_C_3
- ASR_C_4
- ASR_C_5
- ASR_C_6
- ASR_C_7
- ASR_C_8
- ASR_C_9
- ASR_D
- ASR_D_1
- ASR_D_10
- ASR_D_11
- ASR_D_2
- ASR_D_3
- ASR_D_4
- ASR_D_5
- ASR_D_6
- ASR_D_7
- ASR_D_8
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.
Fillable fields accept typing directly. Tab advances from one field to the next in the order the form was built, which is normally the reading order of the page. Check boxes and option buttons are clicked; where a set of options is exclusive, selecting one clears the rest. Fields sized for a single line will not wrap, and text exceeding the width is truncated in print even where it remains visible on screen. Long entries belong in the remarks area or on a continuation, not compressed into a narrow 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.
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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 3479?
- TRAINING AND PROFICIENCY RECORD - AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER
- Which edition is current?
- 10/01/2019
- Who is responsible for this form?
- T2COM
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL, PDF
Publisher notes
- 42-ITEM ONLY PRODUCED IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA