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DA Form 4103 handles one job: visual information (vi) product loan order. The official title is VISUAL INFORMATION (VI) PRODUCT LOAN ORDER. Download it below, fill it in, sign it, send it where your directive says. The edition on this page is 02/01/2023, status ACTIVE, running 1 page(s) with about 200 fields to complete. This edition is superseded — pull the newer one unless your record was already executed on this version.
Authority sits in two places. CIO owns the form, AR 25-1 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.
Pick by how you will enter data: PDF on offer. Typing means fillable pdf, where the boxes accept keystrokes and hold them on save. Handwriting means printable pdf, a flat page image sent straight to a printer. Neither version changes what appears on the page.
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.
Free, unregistered, unmodified. What arrives is what the publisher released.
What the form asks for
- ACCT_NO
- ACC_CODE
- COMMAND
- COPY_NO
- COPY_NO_1
- COPY_NO_10
- COPY_NO_11
- COPY_NO_2
- COPY_NO_3
- COPY_NO_4
- COPY_NO_5
- COPY_NO_6
- COPY_NO_7
- COPY_NO_8
- COPY_NO_9
- CUST_ACCT
- ContentArea1
- DATE_A
- DATE_B
- DODAAC
- DUE_IN
- DVIAN
- FAX_NO
- FISCAL_YR
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.
Tabbing beats clicking for coverage. The order was set at build time and tracks the page layout, so following it leaves no gaps. Boxes and buttons are clicked; where options are exclusive, one selection cancels another by design. Watch field width on long entries: one-line fields have no wrap, and what runs past the edge disappears in print though the screen still shows it. Move that text to remarks or a continuation. Never leave an inapplicable field empty — enter the nil mark, because a reviewer cannot distinguish a skipped question from a considered answer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 CIO or the administrative office servicing your unit.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 4103?
- VISUAL INFORMATION (VI) PRODUCT LOAN ORDER
- Which edition is current?
- 02/01/2023
- Who is responsible for this form?
- CIO
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, PDF
Publisher notes
- . PREVIOUS EDITION DATED JUN 1999 MAY BE USED.