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DA Form 5706-R — TRACK BULLETIN (LRA)

track bulletin (lra)

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DA Form 5706-R belongs to the DA series of Department of the Army publications. Its official title is TRACK BULLETIN (LRA), and its stated purpose is track bulletin (lra). Edition in force: 10/01/1988. Publication status: ACTIVE. Length is 1 page(s), with roughly 200 fields available for entry.

Responsibility for content and revision lies with T2COM. The prescribing directive is FM 4-01.41, 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, 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.

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. An xfdl copy is published as well. It is IBM Lotus Forms, the format carried by several Army systems, and it needs the Lotus Forms Viewer; pdf readers and word processors will not open it.

All formats are free to download and no registration is involved. The files are the published documents, distributed unmodified.

What the form asks for

  • AtMP
  • AtMP_1
  • AtMP_10
  • AtMP_11
  • AtMP_12
  • AtMP_13
  • AtMP_14
  • AtMP_15
  • AtMP_16
  • AtMP_17
  • AtMP_18
  • AtMP_19
  • AtMP_2
  • AtMP_20
  • AtMP_21
  • AtMP_3
  • AtMP_4
  • AtMP_5
  • AtMP_6
  • AtMP_7
  • AtMP_8
  • AtMP_9
  • BulDated
  • BulNo

Completion follows the printed sequence of blocks from the top of the page downward. The heading area takes the identifying particulars — name, identification number, organisation, date of preparation. Retrieval of the record from a file depends on these entries, and they are therefore filled first.

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 completed last and by hand or by an accepted electronic means. An unsigned form is a draft. Where a second signature is called for — reviewing official, approving authority, witness — each is applied in the order the blocks appear and dated as of application, not as of preparation. Blank mandatory fields are the most frequent defect; a nil entry is marked as such rather than left empty. Other recurring faults: transposed digits in identification numbers, dates in the wrong order of day and month, and stale copies retaining prior data because a working file was reused instead of a fresh blank form.

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Once completed, the form goes where the governing authority directs: to the designated office, along the unit administrative channel, or into the personal file. The preparer retains a copy. The length of retention and the manner of filing are set by the records schedule for the series, not by local arrangement.

Associated documents are located through the series and number scheme. Forms in the DA series with the same proponent or the same prescribing directive tend to be used as a set, and any form named on the face of another normally accompanies it. Continuations, cover sheets, and transmittals fall into this category and are gathered before the package is sent.

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 5706-R?
TRACK BULLETIN (LRA)
Which edition is current?
10/01/1988
Who is responsible for this form?
T2COM
In which formats can it be downloaded?
PDF, XFDL, PDF

Publisher notes

  1. 41-ITEM ALSO PRODUCED IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA

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