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DA Form 5701-17 belongs to the DA series of Department of the Army publications. Its official title is MI-17 PERFORMANCE PLANNING CARD (PPC), and its stated purpose is mi-17 performance planning card (ppc). Edition in force: 03/01/2016. Publication status: ACTIVE. Length is 1 page(s), with roughly 200 fields available for entry.
The office of primary responsibility is T2COM. Use is prescribed by TC 3-04.12, 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.
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.
Any modern browser or reader will display a pdf. Interactive fields behave more predictably in a standalone reader than in an in-browser viewer, which sometimes shows fields it cannot store.
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What the form asks for
- ContentArea1
- CoversText1
- CoversText2
- CoversText3
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- CoversText5
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- CoversText8
- DEPPA_A
- DEPPA_A2
- DEPPA_AIRSPD1
- DEPPA_AIRSPD2
- DEPPA_ARRVDAT1
- DEPPA_ARRVDAT10
- DEPPA_ARRVDAT11
- DEPPA_ARRVDAT2
- DEPPA_ARRVDAT3
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- DEPPA_ARRVDAT5
- DEPPA_ARRVDAT6
- DEPPA_ARRVDAT7
- DEPPA_ARRVDAT8
- DEPPA_ARRVDAT9
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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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Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 5701-17?
- MI-17 PERFORMANCE PLANNING CARD (PPC)
- Which edition is current?
- 03/01/2016
- Who is responsible for this form?
- T2COM
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, PDF