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Use DA Form 3992 when you need to narcotics or explosives detector dog training and utilization record. Full title: NARCOTICS OR EXPLOSIVES DETECTOR DOG TRAINING AND UTILIZATION RECORD. Everything you need is on this page — the file, the entry rules, the routing. Edition 05/01/2007, status ACTIVE, 2 page(s), roughly 200 fields.
PMG is the proponent, AR 190-12 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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What the form asks for
- AGE
- CORRCT
- CORRCT_1
- CORRCT_10
- CORRCT_11
- CORRCT_12
- CORRCT_13
- CORRCT_14
- CORRCT_15
- CORRCT_16
- CORRCT_17
- CORRCT_18
- CORRCT_19
- CORRCT_2
- CORRCT_20
- CORRCT_21
- CORRCT_22
- CORRCT_23
- CORRCT_24
- CORRCT_25
- CORRCT_26
- CORRCT_27
- CORRCT_28
- CORRCT_29
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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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.
Routing follows AR 190-12 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.
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.
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.
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Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 3992?
- NARCOTICS OR EXPLOSIVES DETECTOR DOG TRAINING AND UTILIZATION RECORD
- Which edition is current?
- 05/01/2007
- Who is responsible for this form?
- PMG
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, PDF
Publisher notes
- 42-ITEM ONLY PRODUCED IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA