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DA Form 5429 is a DA series document issued for use across the Department of the Army. Official title: CONDUCT OF FIRE. Purpose: conduct of fire. The current edition carries the date 09/01/2017 and is listed with a publication status of ACTIVE. The form runs to 1 page(s) and contains approximately 200 entry fields.
Responsibility for content and revision lies with T2COM. The prescribing directive is ATP 3-09.30, which sets both the trigger for use and the disposition of the completed document. Entry is made by the named party or by the records clerk holding the file, with review and signature applied in the prescribed order.
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
- AF_FFE_IS_S
- AMMUNITION_FUZE
- CONTROL
- CORRECTIONS
- CORRECTIONS1
- CORRECTIONS10
- CORRECTIONS11
- CORRECTIONS12
- CORRECTIONS13
- CORRECTIONS14
- CORRECTIONS15
- CORRECTIONS16
- CORRECTIONS17
- CORRECTIONS18
- CORRECTIONS2
- CORRECTIONS3
- CORRECTIONS4
- CORRECTIONS5
- CORRECTIONS6
- CORRECTIONS7
- CORRECTIONS8
- CORRECTIONS9
- CORRECTIONS_DISTANCE
- CORRECTIONS_DISTANCE1
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.
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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The completed form is routed as the governing authority prescribes: to the office named in the directive, through the unit administrative channel, or into the individual's file, depending on the case. A copy is retained by the preparer. Filing and retention follow the records schedule applicable to the series rather than local practice.
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 5429?
- CONDUCT OF FIRE
- Which edition is current?
- 09/01/2017
- Who is responsible for this form?
- T2COM
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, PDF