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DA Form 5666 belongs to the DA series of Department of the Army publications. Its official title is GAINING COMMAND FIELDING EVALUATION, and its stated purpose is gaining command fielding evaluation. Edition in force: 04/01/2022. Publication status: ACTIVE. Length is 1 page(s), with roughly 158 fields available for entry.
Proponency for the form rests with ASA (AL&T). The governing authority is AR 770-2, 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 The edition shown here is superseded and is retained for reference and for records already executed on it.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, 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.
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.
All formats are free to download and no registration is involved. The files are the published documents, distributed unmodified.
What the form asks for
- ADDRESS
- COMMENTS
- ContentArea1
- DSN_NO
- EVAL_DATE
- EXPLAIN
- F_DATE
- GAINING
- LIN
- MODEL_NO
- NA_A
- NA_B
- NA_C
- NA_D
- NA_E
- NA_F
- NA_G
- NA_H
- NA_I
- NA_J
- NA_K
- NA_L
- NA_M
- NA_N
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.
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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Revision by the proponent supersedes an edition. Version is read from the edition date printed on the form itself, and a stored copy is compared against the current edition before it is used again. Documents already executed under an earlier edition are not redone because of the change.
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Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 5666?
- GAINING COMMAND FIELDING EVALUATION
- Which edition is current?
- 04/01/2022
- Who is responsible for this form?
- ASA (AL&T)
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL, PDF