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DA Form 3703-R is a Department of the Army form in the DA series. Title of record: PRODUCT QUALITY INSPECTION SUMMARY (LRA). Function: product quality inspection summary (lra). The edition presently published bears the date 08/01/1978, with a status of ACTIVE. Physical extent is 2 page(s) and about 200 fillable fields.
Proponency for the form rests with AMC. The governing authority is TB 55-1500-325-25, which establishes the circumstances of use and the required routing. Preparation falls to the individual named in the entries or to the unit administrator acting on that individual's behalf; review and signature follow the chain set out in the governing authority.
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.
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.
Every format is available at no charge and without sign-up. Files are distributed exactly as published, with no changes to the page.
What the form asks for
- ACCEPTD
- ADEQUATE
- AGENCY
- AUTOVON
- CONTRACT
- ContentArea1
- ContentArea2
- DATE
- DEFECT_A
- DEFECT_A_1
- DEFECT_A_2
- DEFECT_A_3
- DEFECT_A_4
- DEFECT_A_5
- DEFECT_A_6
- DEFECT_A_7
- DEFECT_B
- DEFECT_B_1
- DEFECT_B_2
- DEFECT_B_3
- DEFECT_B_4
- DEFECT_B_5
- DEFECT_B_6
- DEFECT_B_7
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.
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Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 3703-R?
- PRODUCT QUALITY INSPECTION SUMMARY (LRA)
- Which edition is current?
- 08/01/1978
- Who is responsible for this form?
- AMC
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL, PDF
Publisher notes
- 41-ITEM ALSO PRODUCED IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA