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DA Form 7770 handles one job: certificate of sanitization. The official title is CERTIFICATE OF SANITIZATION. Download it below, fill it in, sign it, send it where your directive says. The edition on this page is 02/01/2023, status ACTIVE, running 1 page(s) with about 135 fields to complete. This edition is superseded — pull the newer one unless your record was already executed on this version.
G-6 is the proponent, PAM 25-2-8 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.
Pick by how you will enter data: PDF 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.
Use a full pdf reader, not the browser viewer. Browser viewers display fields they cannot always save, and the loss shows up only when you reopen the file — type one entry, save, reopen, verify, then fill the rest.
No charge, no account, no email address. The file is the published document, distributed unaltered.
What the form asks for
- BACK_LOC
- BLOCK_ERASE
- CLASSIFICATION
- CLEAR
- CRYPTO_ERASE
- ContentArea1
- DAMAGE
- DATE3
- DEGAUSS
- DESTRUCT
- Date2
- EXTERNAL
- FULL
- INTERNAL
- L227
- L228
- L229
- L230
- LOCATION
- LOC_VAL
- MANUFACTURER
- MEDIA_PROP
- MEDIA_TYPE
- METHOD
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.
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.
Routing follows PAM 25-2-8 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.
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.
Edition date is the version number, printed on the page. Hold a locally saved copy against the current edition before reuse, since nothing on your machine signals a revision. Work already executed under a superseded edition remains as filed.
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 G-6 or your servicing administrative office.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 7770?
- CERTIFICATE OF SANITIZATION
- Which edition is current?
- 02/01/2023
- Who is responsible for this form?
- G-6
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, PDF
Publisher notes
- , PREVIOUS EDITION DATED MAR 2019 MAY BE USED.