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DA Form 4787 — REASSIGNMENT PROCESSING

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DA Form 4787 exists to reassignment processing — that is the short version. Title of record: REASSIGNMENT PROCESSING. The page covers the download, the entries and the disposition, nothing else. Current here: edition 03/01/2007, status ACTIVE, 1 page(s), near 200 fields.

G-1 is the proponent, AR 600-8-11 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.

PDF, XFDL are available and the decision takes one second. Type your entries: fillable pdf. Write them: printable pdf. The published layout is common to both, so the format governs your method and nothing more.

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. The xfdl copy needs the IBM Lotus Forms Viewer. That format runs in Army systems and nothing else reads it.

No charge, no account, no email address. The file is the published document, distributed unaltered.

What the form asks for

  • ACCEPT
  • ANTICIP
  • CONTACT
  • CURRENT
  • CUR_FAM
  • ContentArea1
  • DATE
  • DO_NOT
  • FAMILY_C
  • FAMILY_C_1
  • FAMILY_C_2
  • FAMILY_C_3
  • FAMILY_D
  • FAMILY_D_1
  • FAMILY_D_2
  • FAMILY_D_3
  • FAMILY_N
  • FAMILY_N_1
  • FAMILY_N_2
  • FAMILY_N_3
  • FAMILY_R
  • FAMILY_R_1
  • FAMILY_R_2
  • FAMILY_R_3

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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-1 or your servicing administrative office.

Questions and answers

What is DA Form 4787?
REASSIGNMENT PROCESSING
Which edition is current?
03/01/2007
Who is responsible for this form?
G-1
In which formats can it be downloaded?
PDF, XFDL, PDF

Publisher notes

  1. 42-ITEM ONLY PRODUCED IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA
  2. 14-REQUIRES PRIVACY ACT STATEMENT (AR 340-21)

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