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DA Form 7786 exists to dod executive agent responsibilities assigned to the secretary of the army data call — that is the short version. Title of record: DOD EXECUTIVE AGENT RESPONSIBILITIES ASSIGNED TO THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY DATA CALL. The page covers the download, the entries and the disposition, nothing else. Current here: edition 04/01/2024, status ACTIVE, 1 page(s), near 200 fields. Superseded edition. A newer one is out; stay here only for files already executed on this version.
AASA is the proponent, AR 1-19 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.
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.
Free, unregistered, unmodified. What arrives is what the publisher released.
What the form asks for
- AIR_FORCE_CIV
- AIR_FORCE_CIV1
- AIR_FORCE_CIV2
- AIR_FORCE_CIV3
- AIR_FORCE_CIV4
- AIR_FORCE_CIV5
- AIR_FORCE_CIV6
- AIR_FORCE_CIV7
- AIR_FORCE_CIV8
- AIR_FORCE_CIV9
- AIR_FORCE_CTR
- AIR_FORCE_CTR1
- AIR_FORCE_CTR2
- AIR_FORCE_CTR3
- AIR_FORCE_CTR4
- AIR_FORCE_CTR5
- AIR_FORCE_CTR6
- AIR_FORCE_CTR7
- AIR_FORCE_CTR8
- AIR_FORCE_CTR9
- AIR_FORCE_MIL
- AIR_FORCE_MIL1
- AIR_FORCE_MIL2
- AIR_FORCE_MIL3
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.
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.
The Privacy Act statement is read before the personal entries, not after. It gives the collection authority, the purpose, the routine uses and whether disclosure is mandatory or voluntary. Once filled, your copy is a personal record and gets stored and transmitted accordingly.
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.
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.
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 AASA or your servicing administrative office.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 7786?
- DOD EXECUTIVE AGENT RESPONSIBILITIES ASSIGNED TO THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY DATA CALL
- Which edition is current?
- 04/01/2024
- Who is responsible for this form?
- AASA
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, PDF