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Use DA Form 348 when you need to equipment operator`s qualification record (except aircraft). Full title: EQUIPMENT OPERATOR`S QUALIFICATION RECORD (EXCEPT AIRCRAFT). Everything you need is on this page — the file, the entry rules, the routing. Edition 03/01/2025, 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.
Authority sits in two places. G-3/5/7 owns the form, AR 600-55 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.
The formats are PDF, XFDL, and the choice comes down to keyboard or pen. Fillable pdf for typing — live fields, tab order, saved entries. Printable pdf for handwriting — same page, no interactive objects, print it blank. Content is identical; only entry method differs.
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
- ACCIDENT
- ACCIDENT_1
- ACTION
- ACTION_1
- ACTION_10
- ACTION_11
- ACTION_12
- ACTION_13
- ACTION_14
- ACTION_2
- ACTION_3
- ACTION_4
- ACTION_5
- ACTION_6
- ACTION_7
- ACTION_8
- ACTION_9
- ACUITY_A
- ACUITY_A_1
- ACUITY_B
- ACUITY_L
- ACUITY_R
- ADDITION
- ADDITION_1
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.
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.
A stored file goes stale silently. The proponent revises, a new edition date is published, and your copy says nothing about it — so compare the printed date against the edition in force before typing into it again. Completed submissions on an earlier edition are not reopened.
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 G-3/5/7 or your servicing administrative office.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 348?
- EQUIPMENT OPERATOR`S QUALIFICATION RECORD (EXCEPT AIRCRAFT)
- Which edition is current?
- 03/01/2025
- Who is responsible for this form?
- G-3/5/7
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL, PDF
Publisher notes
- PRIVACY ACT STATEMENT