Every entry on DA Form 67-10-1 exists because a record system needs it in writing. The form's official title is COMPANY GRADE PLATE (O1 - O3; WO1 - CW2) OFFICER EVALUATION REPORT, and it is raised whenever an office must company grade plate (o1 - o3; wo1 - cw2) officer evaluation report in a way that survives the departure of everyone involved. Memory does not transfer between assignments; a filed document does. The edition dated 03/01/2019, status ACTIVE, is what stands here, spread across 1 page(s) and about 148 fields — a count that reflects how much detail the receiving system requires, not how much the drafter wishes to give.
Behind any Army form sit two separate decisions. What the document asks is settled by G-1, which maintains and revises it. Whether you raise it, and where it goes once signed, is settled by AR 623-3. That division is the reason a form can outlive several changes in the process it serves.
The heading blocks come first because the record is retrieved by them, not read into. Name as official records spell it, identification number, unit, date of preparation — those four are the index, and everything below them is content that only surfaces once the index has done its work. A form filed under a name written casually is not lost in principle, only in practice, which amounts to the same thing.
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.
The signature is the point at which entries become an assertion someone stands behind, so it follows everything else and its absence leaves a draft. Countersignatures by reviewing, approving or witnessing officials each carry their own weight and are dated at signing, which is how the file preserves the order of responsibility. Seen that way, the familiar errors are not clerical trivia: an unanswered mandatory field, digits transposed in an identification number, day and month reversed, and residue from a reused file each put something false or unresolved into a document that will be relied upon.
Personal information may not be gathered silently, and the Privacy Act statement is how that obligation is met on paper: it names the collection authority, the purpose, the routine uses and whether disclosure is mandatory. Because it exists to inform a decision, it belongs before the fields it covers rather than after them. A filled copy then holds personal data and is stored and transmitted under the corresponding safeguards.
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What the form asks for
- AKO_Email_Address
- AKO_Email_Address_Rater_a
- AKO_Email_Address_Rater_b
- AKO_Email_Address_Rater_c
- APFT
- APFT2
- APFT2a
- APFT_Comments
- APFT_Date
- APFT_Date_label
- APFT_Date_line
- APFT_Evaluation_Comments
- APFT_Height
- APFT_Standard
- APFT_Weight
- Achieves
- Branch
- Branch_c
- Button8
- Character
- Comment_Potential
- Comments_Enclosed_No
- Comments_Enclosed_Yes
- Completed_No
The routing in AR 623-3 decides where the document goes — a named office, the administrative channel, or the individual's file — and the records schedule for the series decides how long it stays. Neither is a local judgement, because a record system loses its meaning if each office keeps things for its own preferred interval. Copy the form before submitting it.
Related documents are located by series and number, and the relation is rarely accidental — forms under one proponent or one directive tend to serve steps of a single procedure. Anything the DA series form names on its face normally travels with it, as do the continuations, covers and transmittals the process generates. Assembling them together is what makes the submission a complete account.
Revision follows the process, which is why editions appear without a fixed interval, and the printed date rather than any version number identifies them. Nothing on a stored copy signals that it has aged; the check is manual. Work already completed under a superseded edition stands as filed, because the record was made under those terms and is properly interpreted under them.
One boundary should be stated clearly. What is distributed here are copies of published Department of the Army forms; the site is independent, issues nothing of its own, and holds no position in the system it describes. Proponency, prescribing directives and retention schedules operate without reference to it. Consequently nothing here is legal advice and no assurance about acceptance is possible. Questions about a particular entry, a requirement or eligibility belong with G-1 or your servicing administrative office.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 67-10-1?
- COMPANY GRADE PLATE (O1 - O3; WO1 - CW2) OFFICER EVALUATION REPORT
- Which edition is current?
- 03/01/2019
- Who is responsible for this form?
- G-1
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, PDF
Publisher notes
- 04-PUB NOT RELEASABLE TO FOREIGNERS (NOFORN)
- 42-ITEM ONLY PRODUCED IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA, The MSAF programs was eliminated June 08, 2018 with issuance of Army Directive 2018-07-8. MSAF information was a data point collected on DA Form 67-10 series OERs dated Nov 2015. MILPER MSG 18-181 released to explain updated procedures due to issuance of Army Directive 2018-07-8. DA Form 67-10 series OERs have been modified to now reflect the removal of MSAF data entry requirements.