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Use DA Form 3056 when you need to report of missing/recovered firearms, ammunition and explosives. Full title: REPORT OF MISSING/RECOVERED FIREARMS, AMMUNITION AND EXPLOSIVES. Everything you need is on this page — the file, the entry rules, the routing. Edition 03/01/2023, status ACTIVE, 2 page(s), roughly 200 fields. Note the supersession: a later edition exists, and this one applies only to records already completed on it.
PMG is the proponent, ARMY DIR 2023-07 the prescribing authority. Read the directive only if something about your situation departs from the standard case. Otherwise the form is filled by the individual it describes, or by the records clerk keeping the file, and reviewed through the printed signature blocks.
PDF, XFDL are available and the decision takes one second. Type your entries: fillable pdf. Write them: printable pdf. The published layout is common to both, so the format governs your method and nothing more.
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.
Nothing is charged and no sign-up applies. Files are served as published, without changes to the page image.
What the form asks for
- ACT_ARMY
- ARNG
- CALIBER
- CALIBER_1
- CALIBER_10
- CALIBER_11
- CALIBER_12
- CALIBER_13
- CALIBER_14
- CALIBER_15
- CALIBER_16
- CALIBER_17
- CALIBER_2
- CALIBER_3
- CALIBER_4
- CALIBER_5
- CALIBER_6
- CALIBER_7
- CALIBER_8
- CALIBER_9
- Checkbox
- ContentArea1
- DAY_A
- DAY_B
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.
Move between fields with tab; the build-time order follows the page and misses nothing. Click check boxes and option buttons, and expect an exclusive group to release the old choice when you set a new one. The trap is field width. Single-line fields do not wrap, so an overlong entry displays complete on screen and prints cut at the margin — put it in remarks or on a continuation instead. Mark inapplicable fields rather than leaving them blank, since an empty box carries no information about whether the question was read.
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 ARMY DIR 2023-07 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.
These are reproductions of published Department of the Army documents, offered for download. The site is independent, connected to nothing official, and issues no forms of its own. Nothing here is legal advice and no statement is made about acceptance by any office. Questions about an entry, a requirement or eligibility go to PMG or your servicing administrative office.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 3056?
- REPORT OF MISSING/RECOVERED FIREARMS, AMMUNITION AND EXPLOSIVES
- Which edition is current?
- 03/01/2023
- Who is responsible for this form?
- PMG
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL, PDF
Publisher notes
- UNITS FILING A DA FORM 3056 WILL UTILIZE CAC ENABLED, ARMY VANTAGE WEBSITE AT https://vantage.army.mil/DA3056