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DA Form 7004-R is a Department of the Army form in the DA series. Title of record: ADDENDUM TO CERTIFICATE OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF SERVICE REQUIREMENTS (DA FORM 3540) FOR ENROLLMENT INTO THE U.S. ARMY RESERVE SPECIALIZED TRAINING FOR ARMY READINESS (STAR) PROGRAM. Function: addendum to certificate of acknowledgement of service requirements (da form 3540) for enlistment into the usar star program (lra). The edition presently published bears the date July 2005, with a status of not stated. Physical extent is 1 page(s) and about 112 fillable fields.
The office of primary responsibility is DCS, G-1. Use is prescribed by AR 601-210, 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, 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.
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What the form asks for
- APPLDATE
- CNCLNAME
- ContentArea1
- FROM
- GCDATE
- MOS
- NAMESSN
- Page1
- PageArea1
- R86
- R87
- R88
- R89
- R90
- R91
- R92
- R93
- R94
- R95
- R96
- R97
- R98
- T10
- T11
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.
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Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 7004-R?
- ADDENDUM TO CERTIFICATE OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF SERVICE REQUIREMENTS (DA FORM 3540) FOR ENROLLMENT INTO THE U.S. ARMY RESERVE SPECIALIZED TRAINING FOR ARMY READINESS (STAR) PROGRAM
- Which edition is current?
- July 2005
- Who is responsible for this form?
- DCS, G-1
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL