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DA Form 1845 handles one job: schedule of manpower studies/surveys. The official title is SCHEDULE OF MANPOWER STUDIES/SURVEYS. Download it below, fill it in, sign it, send it where your directive says. The edition on this page is May 2000, status not stated, running 1 page(s) with about 200 fields to complete.
Two references decide everything about your use of it: DCS, G-1 maintains the content, AR 570-4 sets the trigger and the routing. Consult the directive when your case is not routine; otherwise the printed blocks tell you enough. The person named in the entries fills it, or the administrative office holding the file does it for them.
The formats are PDF, XFDL, and the choice comes down to keyboard or pen. Fillable pdf for typing — live fields, tab order, saved entries. Printable pdf for handwriting — same page, no interactive objects, print it blank. Content is identical; only entry method differs.
A standalone reader is the safe choice for fillable work. Browser viewers vary in whether entered data survives the session, and there is no warning when it does not; a one-field save test settles it in seconds. Xfdl means IBM Lotus Forms. The Lotus Forms Viewer opens it; pdf readers and word processors do not.
Free, unregistered, unmodified. What arrives is what the publisher released.
What the form asks for
- COMMAND
- ContentArea1
- DATEPLAN
- DATEPLAN_1
- DATEPLAN_10
- DATEPLAN_11
- DATEPLAN_12
- DATEPLAN_13
- DATEPLAN_14
- DATEPLAN_15
- DATEPLAN_16
- DATEPLAN_17
- DATEPLAN_18
- DATEPLAN_19
- DATEPLAN_2
- DATEPLAN_20
- DATEPLAN_21
- DATEPLAN_22
- DATEPLAN_23
- DATEPLAN_3
- DATEPLAN_4
- DATEPLAN_5
- DATEPLAN_6
- DATEPLAN_7
Start at the top and get the header exactly right. Official spelling of the name, identification number, unit, date. Everything downstream finds the record through those entries; nothing else on the page has that consequence.
Tab through the fields rather than clicking. The tab order was fixed when the form was built and generally follows the page, which catches boxes a mouse skips past. Check boxes and option buttons take a click, and an exclusive group clears the previous selection when you make a new one. Single-line fields do not wrap — text past the field width prints truncated while still showing in full on screen, which is why the loss is discovered after printing. Overflow goes to remarks or a continuation sheet. A field that does not apply gets the mark meaning none; blank space reads as an omission.
Signature comes after every other entry — ink or an approved electronic means, and without it the document is a draft. Where reviewing, approving or witnessing signatures are called for, take them in printed block order, each dated on the day applied. Before release, one pass from the top. The defects worth hunting are always the same four: mandatory fields left empty, identification digits transposed, dates with day and month reversed, and stale data surviving in a copy reused in place of a blank form.
Privacy Act statement first, personal entries second. The notice covers who is authorised to collect, why, who else routinely sees it, and whether you must answer. After completion the file carries personal data and is stored and sent under the corresponding safeguards.
Routing follows AR 570-4 and nothing else — a named office, the unit administrative channel, or the individual's file, according to why the form was raised. Copy it before it leaves. Retention is fixed by the records schedule for the series, which local practice does not shorten or extend.
Companion documents come from the same series and number scheme. Within the DA series, a shared proponent or a shared directive usually means shared use, and a form cited on the face of another accompanies it. Gather the whole package first — continuation sheets, cover sheets, transmittals.
Check the edition date before reusing a saved copy. Revisions come from the proponent without notice to you, and the printed date is the only version marker on the page. Already-submitted records under a superseded edition stand as filed; the change does not run backwards.
What is distributed here are reproductions of published Department of the Army documents. Independent site, no official standing, no forms of its own. Nothing on the page constitutes legal advice, and acceptance by any office is outside what can be stated. Put questions about entries, requirements or eligibility to DCS, G-1 or your servicing administrative office.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 1845?
- SCHEDULE OF MANPOWER STUDIES/SURVEYS
- Which edition is current?
- May 2000
- Who is responsible for this form?
- DCS, G-1
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL