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Use DA Form 4339 when you need to mortuary activity and status report (overseas). Full title: MORTUARY ACTIVITY & STATUS REPORT (OVERSEAS). Everything you need is on this page — the file, the entry rules, the routing. Edition May 1999, status not stated, 1 page(s), roughly 200 fields.
Two references decide everything about your use of it: DCS, G-1 maintains the content, AR 638-2 sets the trigger and the routing. Consult the directive when your case is not routine; otherwise the printed blocks tell you enough. The person named in the entries fills it, or the administrative office holding the file does it for them.
The formats are PDF, 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.
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.
No charge, no account, no email address. The file is the published document, distributed unaltered.
What the form asks for
- ALLOTH_A
- ALLOTH_B
- ALLOTH_C
- ALLOTH_D
- ALLOTH_E
- ALLOTH_F
- CASONHAND
- COVERFROM
- COVERTO
- ContentArea1
- DAC
- DAC_EMB
- DATE
- FROM
- HUMAN
- INTRANSIT
- MEMORIAL
- MILITARY
- MIL_EMB
- OFFICER
- ONHAND
- ONLOAN
- OTHER
- Page1
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.
Tab through the fields rather than clicking. The tab order was fixed when the form was built and generally follows the page, which catches boxes a mouse skips past. Check boxes and option buttons take a click, and an exclusive group clears the previous selection when you make a new one. Single-line fields do not wrap — text past the field width prints truncated while still showing in full on screen, which is why the loss is discovered after printing. Overflow goes to remarks or a continuation sheet. A field that does not apply gets the mark meaning none; blank space reads as an omission.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What is distributed here are reproductions of published Department of the Army documents. Independent site, no official standing, no forms of its own. Nothing on the page constitutes legal advice, and acceptance by any office is outside what can be stated. Put questions about entries, requirements or eligibility to DCS, G-1 or your servicing administrative office.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 4339?
- MORTUARY ACTIVITY & STATUS REPORT (OVERSEAS)
- Which edition is current?
- May 1999
- Who is responsible for this form?
- DCS, G-1
- In which formats can it be downloaded?