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DA Form 7306 — WORKSHEET FOR TELEPHONIC NOTIFICATION OF GROUND ACCIDENT

worksheet for telephonic notification of ground accident

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DA Form 7306 is a DA series document issued for use across the Department of the Army. Official title: WORKSHEET FOR TELEPHONIC NOTIFICATION OF GROUND ACCIDENT. Purpose: worksheet for telephonic notification of ground accident. The current edition carries the date 10/01/2013 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 DAS. The prescribing directive is AR 385-10, 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. This edition has been superseded by a newer one. It is kept accessible for reference and for records already completed under it.

Formats offered: PDF, XFDL. All are the same published layout in different containers, and the choice between them is a matter of how the entries will be made rather than what appears on the page. The pdf serves as the authoritative rendering. A fillable pdf exposes editable fields on screen; a printable pdf is the blank form as a flat page for handwriting.

The pdf displays in current browsers and in any reader application. For fillable use a full reader is preferable to a browser viewer, since viewers vary in whether entered data is retained. An xfdl file is available too. The format is IBM Lotus Forms, in use across Army form systems, and it opens only in the Lotus Forms Viewer.

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

What the form asks for

  • ACCDNT_A
  • ACCDNT_B
  • ARMYCVLN
  • BOX2
  • BOX4
  • CASENUM
  • COMMANDR
  • COMMRCAL
  • CVLIAN
  • CheckboxStyle1
  • ContentArea1
  • DAY
  • DAY_A
  • DAY_B
  • DSN
  • ENLSTED
  • EXACLOC
  • FATAL
  • HGHRNK
  • MACOM
  • MONTH_A
  • MONTH_B
  • NAME
  • NEARSITE

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.

Where personal information is gathered, the form carries a Privacy Act statement giving the collection authority, the purpose, the routine uses, and the mandatory or voluntary character of the disclosure. It is read before entries are made rather than afterwards. A completed copy holds personal data and is stored and transmitted under the corresponding safeguards.

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.

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 7306?
WORKSHEET FOR TELEPHONIC NOTIFICATION OF GROUND ACCIDENT
Which edition is current?
10/01/2013
Who is responsible for this form?
DAS
In which formats can it be downloaded?
PDF, XFDL, PDF

Publisher notes

  1. 42-ITEM ONLY PRODUCED IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA

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