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DA Form 3180 exists to personnel screening and evaluation record — that is the short version. Title of record: PERSONNEL SCREENING AND EVALUATION RECORD. The page covers the download, the entries and the disposition, nothing else. Current here: edition May 2008, status not stated, 2 page(s), near 200 fields.
DCS, G-3/5/7 is the proponent, AR 50-1 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.
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.
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
- ADJUDICATED
- ALCOHOL
- ATTEND
- AUTHORIZED
- CERTIFIED_1
- CERTIFIED_2
- CHECK1
- CHEMDUTY
- CK_BIO_PRP
- CK_CHEM_PRP
- CK_CONFDNTL
- CK_DO
- CK_DONOT
- CK_NONE
- CK_NUC_PRP
- CK_SECRET
- CK_TOPSECRET
- CONTROL
- COURT
- CRITICAL
- ContentArea1
- DATE_1
- DATE_10
- DATE_12
The heading entries carry more weight than the body. Name spelled as in official records, identification number, organisation, date prepared. Retrieval runs on those values, so a transposed digit or a casual spelling costs someone a file search. Fill them before anything else.
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.
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.
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.
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 DCS, G-3/5/7 or your servicing administrative office.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 3180?
- PERSONNEL SCREENING AND EVALUATION RECORD
- Which edition is current?
- May 2008
- Who is responsible for this form?
- DCS, G-3/5/7
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL