The reason DA Form 67-10-2 looks the way it does is that a file has to speak for itself. Officially FIELD GRADE PLATE (O4 - O5; CW3 - CW5) OFFICER EVALUATION REPORT, it serves to field grade plate (o4 - o5; cw3 - cw5) officer evaluation report, and the record it produces outlasts the people and the circumstances behind it. Edition 03/01/2019, status ACTIVE, is the version published here: 1 page(s), close to 145 fields, each one present because some later reader will need that fact without being able to ask for it.
Two offices stand behind the form, and the distinction between them explains most of what follows. G-1 is the proponent: it decides what the form asks and revises it when the underlying process changes. AR 623-3 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.
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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The published formats — PDF — reflect the range of places a form gets filled in. Where there is a computer, the fillable pdf supplies live fields that keep entries positioned and readable. Where there is not, the printable pdf gives the identical page as flat artwork for pen entry. The distinction is one of setting rather than of authority; the page is the same document in both.
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
- 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
- Branch
- Branch_c
- Button8
- Character
- Comment_Potential
- Comments_Enclosed_No
- Comments_Enclosed_Yes
- Completed_No
- Completed_Yes
Disposition is prescribed, not chosen. AR 623-3 names the destination, whether that is a specific office, the unit administrative channel or the personal record, and the applicable records schedule governs how long it survives there. Both rules exist to keep the file consistent across offices with different habits. Take your copy before the document leaves, since it will not come back.
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.
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 67-10-2?
- FIELD GRADE PLATE (O4 - O5; CW3 - CW5) 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.