Every entry on DA Form 67-10-1A exists because a record system needs it in writing. The form's official title is OFFICER EVALUATION REPORT SUPPORT FORM, and it is raised whenever an office must officer evaluation report support form 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 159 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.
The rules of entry all trace back to the page being fixed in advance. Tabbing follows the order built into the form, which usually matches how the page reads and misses less than clicking. An exclusive group discards the earlier selection because contradictory entries would make the record unusable. One-line fields have no wrap because print positions are predetermined, so an overlong entry displays fully and prints truncated. Longer text goes to the remarks area or a continuation, both provided for exactly that. Where nothing applies, the nil mark is entered — a blank leaves the reader unable to tell a considered answer from a skipped one.
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.
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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Software determines whether an entry lasts. A browser viewer is designed for reading, and several will take typed input into fields without any means of writing it back — the text is simply absent when you reopen. A standalone reader handles the form structure properly.
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What the form asks for
- ADDRESS
- AchieveComments1
- AchieveComments2
- AddCommentPage
- Branch2
- BulletComments8
- BulletComments9
- Button8
- COUNSELING_DATE_INITIAL1
- COUNSELING_DATE_INITIAL10
- COUNSELING_DATE_INITIAL11
- COUNSELING_DATE_INITIAL12
- COUNSELING_DATE_INITIAL13
- COUNSELING_DATE_INITIAL14
- COUNSELING_DATE_INITIAL15
- COUNSELING_DATE_INITIAL16
- COUNSELING_DATE_INITIAL17
- COUNSELING_DATE_INITIAL18
- COUNSELING_DATE_INITIAL2
- COUNSELING_DATE_INITIAL3
- COUNSELING_DATE_INITIAL4
- COUNSELING_DATE_INITIAL5
- COUNSELING_DATE_INITIAL6
- COUNSELING_DATE_INITIAL7
Where the signed form goes is settled by AR 623-3 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.
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.
Editions change because the process changes, and the printed edition date is the only marker of which version a page belongs to. A copy saved locally cannot know it has been superseded, so the date on it is compared against the edition in force before reuse. Records already executed under an earlier edition are left alone — a document is read under the terms it was made, and reopening completed files to match a later form would falsify the account.
It is worth being plain about what this page is within all of the above. The files are reproductions of published Department of the Army documents, offered for download by a site with no official standing and no part in issuing anything. That matters because the machinery described here — proponency, prescribing directives, records schedules — runs entirely elsewhere. Nothing written here is legal advice, and no statement can be made about whether an office will accept a given document. G-1 and the administrative office servicing your unit answer questions of entry, requirement and eligibility, and they are the ones positioned to.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 67-10-1A?
- OFFICER EVALUATION REPORT SUPPORT FORM
- 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.