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DA Form 7696 exists to commander's performance and capability checklist — that is the short version. Title of record: COMMANDER'S PERFORMANCE AND CAPABILITY CHECKLIST. The page covers the download, the entries and the disposition, nothing else. Current here: edition 03/01/2019, status ACTIVE, 1 page(s), near 200 fields.
Two references decide everything about your use of it: G-1 maintains the content, AR 600-77 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.
PDF 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.
Free, unregistered, unmodified. What arrives is what the publisher released.
What the form asks for
- CHECK1
- CHECK10
- CHECK11
- CHECK12
- CHECK13
- CHECK14
- CHECK15
- CHECK16
- CHECK17
- CHECK18
- CHECK19
- CHECK2
- CHECK20
- CHECK21
- CHECK22
- CHECK23
- CHECK24
- CHECK25
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- CHECK28
- CHECK29
- CHECK3
- CHECK30
Header first, always. Name as your official records spell it, identification number, unit, date of preparation — these four index the finished record, and an error in them hides the document from anyone searching for it later. The substantive blocks can wait thirty seconds.
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.
Signature comes after every other entry — ink or an approved electronic means, and without it the document is a draft. Where reviewing, approving or witnessing signatures are called for, take them in printed block order, each dated on the day applied. Before release, one pass from the top. The defects worth hunting are always the same four: mandatory fields left empty, identification digits transposed, dates with day and month reversed, and stale data surviving in a copy reused in place of a blank form.
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.
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.
Look for associated forms by series and number. In the DA series, documents sharing a proponent or a governing directive tend to travel together, and anything referenced on the page normally submits alongside. Collect continuations, covers and transmittals in advance of sending.
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.
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-1 or your servicing administrative office.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 7696?
- COMMANDER'S PERFORMANCE AND CAPABILITY CHECKLIST
- Which edition is current?
- 03/01/2019
- Who is responsible for this form?
- G-1
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, PDF