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DA Form 2684-R handles one job: cemetery operations - utilization of gravesites (lra). The official title is CEMETERY OPERATIONS - UTILIZATION OF GRAVESITES. Download it below, fill it in, sign it, send it where your directive says. The edition on this page is June 1982, status not stated, running 1 page(s) with about 162 fields to complete.
Authority sits in two places. DSC, G-1 owns the form, PAM 290-5 says when it is raised and where it goes. Routine cases need neither read in full — the page itself carries the sequence. The entries are completed by their subject or by unit administrative staff working from what that person supplies.
Pick by how you will enter data: PDF, XFDL on offer. Typing means fillable pdf, where the boxes accept keystrokes and hold them on save. Handwriting means printable pdf, a flat page image sent straight to a printer. Neither version changes what appears on the page.
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. The xfdl file is IBM Lotus Forms, used inside Army systems, and opens in the Lotus Forms Viewer alone — no pdf reader, no word processor.
Free, unregistered, unmodified. What arrives is what the publisher released.
What the form asks for
- ACRSDEV
- BEGKNONET
- BEGTOT
- BEGUKNNET
- BLANK_A
- BLANK_B
- ContentArea1
- DATE
- DURKNODIS
- DURKNOINT
- DURTOTDIS
- DURTOTINT
- DURUNKDIS
- DURUNKINT
- ENDKNO
- ENDTOT
- ENDUKN
- FROM
- LINE_10
- LINE_11
- LINE_12
- LINE_13
- LINE_14
- LINE_15
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.
The signature closes the form and nothing precedes it. Draft status holds until it is applied, by hand or by an accepted electronic method. Countersignatures go in printed order, each dated at signing. Then one final read from the top, looking for the four recurring defects: empty mandatory fields, swapped digits in identification numbers, day-month inversion in dates, and residue from a reused file that goes forward as though intended.
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.
Routing follows PAM 290-5 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.
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.
Edition date is the version number, printed on the page. Hold a locally saved copy against the current edition before reuse, since nothing on your machine signals a revision. Work already executed under a superseded edition remains as filed.
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 DSC, G-1 or your servicing administrative office.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 2684-R?
- CEMETERY OPERATIONS - UTILIZATION OF GRAVESITES
- Which edition is current?
- June 1982
- Who is responsible for this form?
- DSC, G-1
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL