Every entry on DA Form 3479-15 exists because a record system needs it in writing. The form's official title is COMMANDER'S TASK LIST (ATS) AN/TSQ-198 TACTICAL TERMINAL CONTROL SYSTEM (TTCS) OPERATOR, and it is raised whenever an office must commander's task list (ats) an/tsq-198 tactical terminal control system (ttcs) operator in a way that survives the departure of everyone involved. Memory does not transfer between assignments; a filed document does. The edition dated 10/01/2019, status ACTIVE, is what stands here, spread across 1 page(s) and about 119 fields — a count that reflects how much detail the receiving system requires, not how much the drafter wishes to give.
Two offices stand behind the form, and the distinction between them explains most of what follows. T2COM is the proponent: it decides what the form asks and revises it when the underlying process changes. TC 3-04.15 is the prescribing authority: it decides when the form is raised at all and where the completed document travels. Content and occasion are separated deliberately, so that a change in procedure does not require redesigning the page.
Identification precedes substance for a structural reason. Name, identification number, organisation and date of preparation are how the finished document is located in a file or a database; the body of the form is what someone reads after the search has succeeded. Spell the name as official records spell it, since the search runs against those records and not against habit.
Much of the form's behaviour follows from its being a fixed page. Tab order was set at build time along the reading sequence, which is why tabbing catches boxes a pointer passes over. Exclusive groups release one choice when another is made because a record cannot carry two answers to a single question. Single-line fields refuse to wrap because every entry must print where the layout expects it — text beyond the width is lost at the margin, visible on screen to the end. That is what remarks areas and continuation sheets are for. Marking a field that does not apply matters for a related reason: emptiness is ambiguous, and a reviewer reading the file later cannot distinguish an omission from a decision.
Signing is the act that makes the document evidence, and until it happens the entries are only a proposal. Additional signatures — reviewer, approver, witness — each stand for a separate judgement, dated when applied so the record shows who accepted what and in what order. The common faults all damage that record in the same way: a blank mandatory field breaks the chain of required answers, swapped digits in an identification number detach the document from its subject, an inverted day and month misplaces it in time, and stale data from a reused copy states things nobody meant to state.
The Privacy Act statement is on the page because collecting personal information requires the collector to disclose the terms first — the authority relied on, the purpose, the routine uses, and whether an answer is required or may be withheld. That order is the point: the statement is read before the entries it governs, since consent given afterwards is not consent. Once completed, the copy is a personal record and carries the handling obligations that attach to one.
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Why several files for one page? Because the form has to be completed in a headquarters and in places without a workstation, and PDF covers both. The fillable pdf holds interactive fields that fix each entry in place and remove handwriting from the equation. The printable pdf is the same layout without those fields, meant for a printer and a pen. Neither is a lesser copy of the other; each answers a condition the other cannot.
The choice of application decides whether your work survives. Browsers render pdfs as documents to be read; where a viewer shows fields without a mechanism to store them, typed text disappears when the tab closes, and nothing announces the loss. A full reader treats the file as a form and preserves entries on save.
No charge and no account apply: these are published documents, and access to them is not something a distributor is entitled to price.
What the form asks for
- ATCS
- Air_Traffic_Controller_Date
- Air_Traffic_Controller_Name
- Air_Traffic_Controller_Signature
- Commander_Date
- Commander_Name
- Commander_Signature
- Comments
- Completion_Date1
- Completion_Date10
- Completion_Date11
- Completion_Date12
- Completion_Date13
- Completion_Date14
- Completion_Date15
- Completion_Date16
- Completion_Date17
- Completion_Date2
- Completion_Date3
- Completion_Date4
- Completion_Date5
- Completion_Date6
- Completion_Date7
- Completion_Date8
Where the signed form goes is settled by TC 3-04.15 rather than by the office holding it — a named recipient, the unit administrative channel, or the individual's own file, depending on why it was raised. Retention likewise belongs to the records schedule for the series, which exists so documents are kept for as long as anyone might need them and no longer. Keep a copy before release; the original serves the file from then on, not you.
Series and number are how the DA series signals which documents belong together, and the grouping follows real process boundaries: a shared proponent or directive usually means a shared purpose. A form cited on the face of another is part of that same transaction, and continuation sheets, covers and transmittals complete it.
An edition marks the form at a point in a process that keeps moving, and the date printed on the page is what distinguishes one from another. Since a saved file never announces its own obsolescence, compare its date against the current edition before using it again. Prior executions remain valid: the change applies forward, and a record is read against the edition it was written under.
A word on where this page sits. These are reproductions of published Department of the Army documents, made available by an independent site with no official role and no authority to issue forms. The structure described above — proponent, prescribing directive, records schedule — exists apart from this site entirely, which is why nothing written here is legal advice and why acceptance by any office is not something that can be promised. Put questions of entry, requirement or eligibility to T2COM or to the administrative office servicing your unit.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 3479-15?
- COMMANDER'S TASK LIST (ATS) AN/TSQ-198 TACTICAL TERMINAL CONTROL SYSTEM (TTCS) OPERATOR
- Which edition is current?
- 10/01/2019
- Who is responsible for this form?
- T2COM
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, PDF