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DA Form 7279 — EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND HARASSMENT COMPLAINT FORM

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A newer edition of this form has been issued (07/01/2020). Download the current edition.

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Use DA Form 7279 when you need to equal opportunity complaint form. Full title: EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND HARASSMENT COMPLAINT FORM. Everything you need is on this page — the file, the entry rules, the routing. Edition 07/01/2020, status ACTIVE, 2 page(s), roughly 200 fields. Note the supersession: a later edition exists, and this one applies only to records already completed on it.

Two references decide everything about your use of it: G-1 maintains the content, AR 600-20, AR 600-XX(28) 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, XFDL, 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.

A standalone reader is the safe choice for fillable work. Browser viewers vary in whether entered data survives the session, and there is no warning when it does not; a one-field save test settles it in seconds. Xfdl means IBM Lotus Forms. The Lotus Forms Viewer opens it; pdf readers and word processors do not.

Free, unregistered, unmodified. What arrives is what the publisher released.

What the form asks for

  • ACKNOW_A
  • ACKNOW_B
  • ACKNOW_C
  • AFFID_A
  • AFFID_B
  • AFFID_C
  • AFFID_D
  • AFFID_E
  • AFFID_F
  • AGENCY
  • ATTACH
  • COMMAND
  • COMPLAINT
  • CONCUR
  • ContentArea1
  • ContentArea2
  • DATE
  • DATE_A
  • DATE_B
  • DATE_G
  • DATE_H
  • DATE_I
  • DATE_J
  • DATE_K

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.

Move between fields with tab; the build-time order follows the page and misses nothing. Click check boxes and option buttons, and expect an exclusive group to release the old choice when you set a new one. The trap is field width. Single-line fields do not wrap, so an overlong entry displays complete on screen and prints cut at the margin — put it in remarks or on a continuation instead. Mark inapplicable fields rather than leaving them blank, since an empty box carries no information about whether the question was read.

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.

The prescribing directive names the destination; office custom does not. Depending on the case that means a specific office, the unit administrative channel, or the personal record. Keep a copy first, because the original does not come back. Retention runs on the applicable records schedule.

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.

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 G-1 or the administrative office servicing your unit.

Questions and answers

What is DA Form 7279?
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND HARASSMENT COMPLAINT FORM
Which edition is current?
07/01/2020
Who is responsible for this form?
G-1
In which formats can it be downloaded?
PDF, XFDL, PDF

Publisher notes

  1. 14-REQUIRES PRIVACY ACT STATEMENT (AR 340-21),

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