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DA Form 7595-1-11 handles one job: apply a pressure dressing to an open wound. The official title is Control Bleeding Using an Emergency Bandage. Download it below, fill it in, sign it, send it where your directive says. The edition on this page is March 2014, status not stated, running 2 page(s) with about 197 fields to complete.
Two references decide everything about your use of it: TRADOC maintains the content, TC 8-800 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.
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What the form asks for
- A_1_F
- A_1_F1
- A_1_P
- A_1_P1
- A_2_F
- A_2_F1
- A_2_P
- A_2_P1
- A_3_F
- A_3_F1
- A_3_P
- A_3_P1
- B_1_F
- B_1_F1
- B_1_P
- B_1_P1
- B_2_F
- B_2_F1
- B_2_P
- B_2_P1
- B_3_F
- B_3_F1
- B_3_P
- B_3_P1
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.
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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.
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Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 7595-1-11?
- Control Bleeding Using an Emergency Bandage
- Which edition is current?
- March 2014
- Who is responsible for this form?
- TRADOC
- In which formats can it be downloaded?