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DA Form 5226-R belongs to the DA series of Department of the Army publications. Its official title is CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICE (CDS) SPONSOR/PROGRAM AGREEMENT, and its stated purpose is child development services (cds) sponsor/program agreement (lra). Edition in force: July 1989. Publication status: not stated. Length is 2 page(s), with roughly 200 fields available for entry.
The office of primary responsibility is DCS,G-1. Use is prescribed by AR 608-10, 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.
Formats offered: PDF, XFDL. All are the same published layout in different containers, and the choice between them is a matter of how the entries will be made rather than what appears on the page. The pdf serves as the authoritative rendering. A fillable pdf exposes editable fields on screen; a printable pdf is the blank form as a flat page for handwriting.
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.
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What the form asks for
- CDS_DATE
- CHILD_ABUSE
- ContentArea1
- ContentArea2
- ENROLL1
- ENROLL2
- FCCHOME
- FEESPAID
- FEE_PER
- FRI1FR
- FRI1TO
- FRI2FR
- FRI2TO
- FULLDAY
- HOURLY
- IN1
- IN2
- INFANT
- LAUNDERING
- LOCATED
- MEDICAT
- MISC_FEES
- MON1FR
- MON1TO
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Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 5226-R?
- CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICE (CDS) SPONSOR/PROGRAM AGREEMENT
- Which edition is current?
- July 1989
- Who is responsible for this form?
- DCS,G-1
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL