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DA Form 3947-1 handles one job: medical evaluation board proceedings - continuation page. The official title is MEDICAL EVALUATION BOARD PROCEEDINGS - CONTINUATION PAGE. Download it below, fill it in, sign it, send it where your directive says. The edition on this page is 06/01/2017, status ACTIVE, running 1 page(s) with about 193 fields to complete. This edition is superseded — pull the newer one unless your record was already executed on this version.
G-1 is the proponent, AR 40-400 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.
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- DATE
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Start at the top and get the header exactly right. Official spelling of the name, identification number, unit, date. Everything downstream finds the record through those entries; nothing else on the page has that consequence.
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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 AR 40-400 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.
Related forms are found by series and number. DA series documents under the same proponent or the same prescribing directive are commonly required as a set, and any form named on the face of this one goes forward with it. Assemble continuations, covers and transmittals before submitting, not after the query comes back.
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 Work already executed under a superseded edition remains as filed.
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Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 3947-1?
- MEDICAL EVALUATION BOARD PROCEEDINGS - CONTINUATION PAGE
- Which edition is current?
- 06/01/2017
- Who is responsible for this form?
- G-1
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, PDF