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DA Form 5182-R is a DA series document issued for use across the Department of the Army. Official title: SOIL SUCTION, WATER CONTENT AND SPECIFIC VOLUME (LRA). Purpose: soil suction, water content and specific volume (lra). The current edition carries the date 03/01/1983 and is listed with a publication status of ACTIVE. The form runs to 1 page(s) and contains approximately 200 entry fields.
The office of primary responsibility is USACE. Use is prescribed by TM 5-818-7, 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.
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.
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.
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
- BORSAMDEP
- COLA_A
- COLA_A_1
- COLA_A_2
- COLA_A_3
- COLA_A_4
- COLA_A_5
- COLA_A_6
- COLA_A_7
- COLA_B
- COLA_B_1
- COLA_B_2
- COLA_B_3
- COLA_B_4
- COLA_B_5
- COLA_B_6
- COLA_C
- COLA_C_1
- COLA_C_10
- COLA_C_11
- COLA_C_12
- COLA_C_13
- COLA_C_14
- COLA_C_15
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.
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.
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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Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 5182-R?
- SOIL SUCTION, WATER CONTENT AND SPECIFIC VOLUME (LRA)
- Which edition is current?
- 03/01/1983
- Who is responsible for this form?
- USACE
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL, PDF
Publisher notes
- 41-ITEM ALSO PRODUCED IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA