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Use DA Form 5437 when you need to voluntary withdrawal from explosive ordnance disposal (eod) statement. Full title: VOLUNTARY WITHDRAWAL FROM EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL (EOD) STATEMENT. Everything you need is on this page — the file, the entry rules, the routing. Edition 05/01/2017, status ACTIVE, 1 page(s), roughly 48 fields.
G-3/5/7 is the proponent, 611-105 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
- COUNSELOR
- ContentArea1
- DATE1
- DATE2
- FROM
- L11
- L14
- Line1
- Line2
- NAME
- NAME_COUNSELOR
- NAME_SOLDIER
- Page1
- PageArea1
- SOLDIER
- T11
- T14
- T24
- T28
- T31
- T36
- T37
- T39
- T40
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.
Sign last. An unsigned form is a draft whatever else is on it, and additional signatures — reviewer, approver, witness — follow printed block order with each signer dating the day they sign, not the day of preparation. Four faults account for most returns: a blank mandatory field, transposed digits in an identification number, day and month reversed in a date, and leftover entries in a working copy reused instead of a fresh blank. Read the form once from the top before releasing it.
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 611-105 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.
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 G-3/5/7 or your servicing administrative office.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 5437?
- VOLUNTARY WITHDRAWAL FROM EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL (EOD) STATEMENT
- Which edition is current?
- 05/01/2017
- Who is responsible for this form?
- G-3/5/7
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, PDF