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DA Form 5672 exists to meal card control book log — that is the short version. Title of record: MEAL CARD CONTROL BOOK LOG. The page covers the download, the entries and the disposition, nothing else. Current here: edition January 2016, status not stated, 1 page(s), near 156 fields.
Authority sits in two places. DCS, G-4 owns the form, AR 600-38 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, XFDL 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. The xfdl copy needs the IBM Lotus Forms Viewer. That format runs in Army systems and nothing else reads it.
Nothing is charged and no sign-up applies. Files are served as published, without changes to the page image.
What the form asks for
- CONT_NUM
- CONT_NUM_1
- CONT_NUM_10
- CONT_NUM_11
- CONT_NUM_12
- CONT_NUM_13
- CONT_NUM_14
- CONT_NUM_15
- CONT_NUM_16
- CONT_NUM_17
- CONT_NUM_18
- CONT_NUM_19
- CONT_NUM_2
- CONT_NUM_3
- CONT_NUM_4
- CONT_NUM_5
- CONT_NUM_6
- CONT_NUM_7
- CONT_NUM_8
- CONT_NUM_9
- ContentArea1
- DESTROY
- DESTROY_1
- DESTROY_10
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.
Privacy Act statement first, personal entries second. The notice covers who is authorised to collect, why, who else routinely sees it, and whether you must answer. After completion the file carries personal data and is stored and sent under the corresponding safeguards.
Routing follows AR 600-38 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.
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.
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.
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 DCS, G-4 or your servicing administrative office.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 5672?
- MEAL CARD CONTROL BOOK LOG
- Which edition is current?
- January 2016
- Who is responsible for this form?
- DCS, G-4
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL