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DA Form 2166-8-1 exists to ncoer counseling and support form — that is the short version. Title of record: NCOER COUNSELING AND SUPPORT FORM. The page covers the download, the entries and the disposition, nothing else. Current here: edition October 2011, status not stated, 1 page(s), near 200 fields.
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Use a full pdf reader, not the browser viewer. Browser viewers display fields they cannot always save, and the loss shows up only when you reopen the file — type one entry, save, reopen, verify, then fill the rest.
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What the form asks for
- ADDRESS
- APFT2
- APFT2a
- APFT_Date
- APFT_Height
- APFT_Standard
- APFT_Weight
- APPOINTED_DUTIES
- BulletComments1
- BulletComments10
- BulletComments11
- BulletComments12
- BulletComments2
- BulletComments3
- BulletComments4
- BulletComments5
- BulletComments6
- BulletComments7
- BulletComments8
- BulletComments9
- CMDCodedropdwnList1
- CMDCodedropdwnListBX2
- ContentArea1
- DUTIES
Header first, always. Name as your official records spell it, identification number, unit, date of preparation — these four index the finished record, and an error in them hides the document from anyone searching for it later. The substantive blocks can wait thirty seconds.
Tabbing beats clicking for coverage. The order was set at build time and tracks the page layout, so following it leaves no gaps. Boxes and buttons are clicked; where options are exclusive, one selection cancels another by design. Watch field width on long entries: one-line fields have no wrap, and what runs past the edge disappears in print though the screen still shows it. Move that text to remarks or a continuation. Never leave an inapplicable field empty — enter the nil mark, because a reviewer cannot distinguish a skipped question from a considered answer.
Sign last. An unsigned form is a draft whatever else is on it, and additional signatures — reviewer, approver, witness — follow printed block order with each signer dating the day they sign, not the day of preparation. Four faults account for most returns: a blank mandatory field, transposed digits in an identification number, day and month reversed in a date, and leftover entries in a working copy reused instead of a fresh blank. Read the form once from the top before releasing it.
Read the Privacy Act statement at the point it appears. Authority, purpose, routine uses, mandatory or voluntary — four facts, and they govern what you are about to enter. A completed copy holds personal data and takes the handling rules that attach to it.
The prescribing directive names the destination; office custom does not. Depending on the case that means a specific office, the unit administrative channel, or the personal record. Keep a copy first, because the original does not come back. Retention runs on the applicable records schedule.
Look for associated forms by series and number. In the DA series, documents sharing a proponent or a governing directive tend to travel together, and anything referenced on the page normally submits alongside. Collect continuations, covers and transmittals in advance of sending.
A stored file goes stale silently. The proponent revises, a new edition date is published, and your copy says nothing about it — so compare the printed date against the edition in force before typing into it again. Completed submissions on an earlier edition are not reopened.
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Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 2166-8-1?
- NCOER COUNSELING AND SUPPORT FORM
- Which edition is current?
- October 2011
- Who is responsible for this form?
- G-1
- In which formats can it be downloaded?