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DA Form 3252-R handles one job: punchcard transmission worksheet - radioisotope inventory and leak test report (lra). The official title is PUNCHCARD TRANSMISSION WORKSHEET - RADIOISOTOPE INVENTORY AND LEAK TEST REPORT (LRA). Download it below, fill it in, sign it, send it where your directive says. The edition on this page is 03/01/1980, status ACTIVE, running 1 page(s) with about 200 fields to complete.
Two references decide everything about your use of it: CSA maintains the content, AR 385-11 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.
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
- ANAMET_A
- ANAMET_B
- ANAMET_C
- ARLOC_A
- ARLOC_B
- ARLOC_C
- ARLOC_D
- ARLOC_E
- BLNKI
- BLNKII
- BLNKIII
- BLNKIV
- BLNKIX
- BLNKV
- BLNKVI
- BLNKVII
- BLNKVIII
- BLNKX
- ContentArea1
- DOACT_A
- DOACT_B
- DOACT_C
- DOACT_D
- DTATST_A
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.
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.
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.
The Privacy Act statement is read before the personal entries, not after. It gives the collection authority, the purpose, the routine uses and whether disclosure is mandatory or voluntary. Once filled, your copy is a personal record and gets stored and transmitted accordingly.
Send it where the directive says: the office it names, the unit administrative channel, or the individual's file. Take your copy before submission. How long the record is held comes from the schedule for the series, not from the office holding it.
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.
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.
The files are copies of published Department of the Army forms. This site has no official connection, no authority to issue anything, and no basis for saying whether an office will accept a given submission. None of the text is legal advice. Real questions — entry, requirement, eligibility — belong with CSA or the administrative office servicing your unit.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 3252-R?
- PUNCHCARD TRANSMISSION WORKSHEET - RADIOISOTOPE INVENTORY AND LEAK TEST REPORT (LRA)
- Which edition is current?
- 03/01/1980
- Who is responsible for this form?
- CSA
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL, PDF
Publisher notes
- 41-ITEM ALSO PRODUCED IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA