Download the form
DA Form 3355 handles one job: promotion point worksheet (united states army reserve). The official title is PROMOTION POINT WORKSHEET (UNITED STATES ARMY RESERVE). Download it below, fill it in, sign it, send it where your directive says. The edition on this page is January, status not stated, running 2 page(s) with about 200 fields to complete.
Authority sits in two places. DCS, G-1 owns the form, AR 600-8-19 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.
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.
Save the download and open it in a dedicated reader. That single step prevents the common failure: an in-browser viewer accepts your typing and discards it at tab close. Confirm with one field and one save cycle before committing the whole form. The xfdl copy needs the IBM Lotus Forms Viewer. That format runs in Army systems and nothing else reads it.
Free, unregistered, unmodified. What arrives is what the publisher released.
What the form asks for
- APFTDATE
- AUTHORITY
- AWARDS_A
- AWARDS_A_1
- AWARDS_A_2
- AWARDS_A_3
- AWARDS_A_4
- AWARDS_A_5
- AWARDS_A_6
- AWARDS_B
- AWARDS_B_1
- AWARDS_B_2
- AWARDS_B_3
- AWARDS_B_4
- AWARDS_B_5
- AWARDS_B_6
- AWARDS_C
- AWARDS_C_1
- AWARDS_C_2
- AWARDS_C_3
- AWARDS_C_4
- AWARDS_C_5
- AWARDS_C_6
- CIVED_A
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.
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.
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.
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.
Check the edition date before reusing a saved copy. Revisions come from the proponent without notice to you, and the printed date is the only version marker on the page. Already-submitted records under a superseded edition stand as filed; the change does not run backwards.
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 DCS, G-1 or the administrative office servicing your unit.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 3355?
- PROMOTION POINT WORKSHEET (UNITED STATES ARMY RESERVE)
- Which edition is current?
- January
- Who is responsible for this form?
- DCS, G-1
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL