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DA Form 3947-1 is a DA series document issued for use across the Department of the Army. Official title: MEDICAL EVALUATION BOARD PROCEEDINGS - CONTINUATION PAGE. Purpose: medical evaluation board proceedings - continuation page. The current edition carries the date 06/01/2017 and is listed with a publication status of ACTIVE. The form runs to 1 page(s) and contains approximately 193 entry fields.
Proponency for the form rests with G-1. The governing authority is AR 40-400, 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. A later edition of this form exists. The edition shown here is superseded and is retained for reference and for records already executed on it.
Distributed formats: PDF. 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.
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What the form asks for
- BOARD_INITIALS_BUTTON2
- BOARD_INITIALS_BUTTON3
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- ContentArea1
- DATE
- DATE_A1
- DATE_A10
- DATE_A11
- DATE_A12
- DATE_A13
- DATE_A14
- DATE_A2
- DATE_A3
- DATE_A4
- DATE_A5
- DATE_A6
- DATE_A7
- DATE_A8
- DATE_A9
- DoDNumb
- DoesNotMeet_A1
- DoesNotMeet_A10
- DoesNotMeet_A11
- DoesNotMeet_A12
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.
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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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.
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.
Editions are replaced when the proponent revises the content. The edition date printed on the form is the means of telling one version from another, and the date on a downloaded copy is checked against the edition in force before use. Records already executed on a prior edition are not reworked on that account.
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Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 3947-1?
- MEDICAL EVALUATION BOARD PROCEEDINGS - CONTINUATION PAGE
- Which edition is current?
- 06/01/2017
- Who is responsible for this form?
- G-1
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, PDF