- DA 31Form
Request and Authority for Leave
Requests and authorizes ordinary leave, pass, permissive TDY, and terminal leave, and records sign-out and sign-in.
- DA 3161Form
Request for Issue or Turn-In
Requests issue or turn-in of supplies and equipment and documents lateral transfers between property book accounts.
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Personnel actions and the DA Form 4187
What the DA Form 4187 is for, the actions it commonly carries, and how to submit one that does not come back.
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Supply & Property
Hand receipts, sensitive item inventories, command supply discipline, and what to do when something is lost or damaged.
- ADP 6-0Publication
Command and Control
ADP 6-0 is the Army's doctrine for command and control, and the home of mission command -- the approach to command and control that empowers subordinates to act within the commander's intent. The July 2026 edition drops the older 'Mission Command: Command and Control of Army Forces' title and is organized around command, control, and the command and control warfighting function. Its seven principles of mission command are among the most commonly asked board material.
- ADP 3-19Publication
Fires
ADP 3-19 defines the fires warfighting function -- its tasks, its capabilities, and how effects are delivered and integrated through targeting. It deliberately covers more than field artillery: air and missile defense, joint fires, and nonlethal effects all live here. It replaced ADP 3-09 as the Army's fundamental fires publication.
- AR 600-8-10Publication
Leaves and Passes
AR 600-8-10 governs leave and pass: accrual, approval authority, emergency leave, permissive TDY, and the rules for special passes. It is the reference behind every DA Form 31 argument. Company-level leaders should know the approval authorities cold.
- ADP 3-0Publication
Operations
ADP 3-0 is the Army's capstone description of how it conducts operations. The March 2025 edition carries multidomain operations as the Army's operational concept and supersedes the July 2019 edition. It sets the vocabulary -- warfighting functions, combat power, the operational framework -- that nearly every other doctrinal publication uses.
- ADP 4-0Publication
Sustainment
ADP 4-0 is the Army's foundational sustainment publication. It covers the elements of sustainment -- logistics, financial management, personnel services, and health service support -- and the principles that govern them. The March 2026 edition sets the framework that FM 4-0 and the rest of the 4-series fill in.
- ADP 7-0Publication
Training
ADP 7-0 is the Army's doctrine for training Soldiers and units. It carries the principles of training that leaders apply when they build and defend a training plan. The April 2024 edition supersedes the July 2019 version; FM 7-0 carries the procedures.
- DA 7531Form
Checklist and Tracking Document for Financial Liability Investigations of Property Loss
The checklist a financial liability officer works through, and the tracking sheet that shows where a FLIPL sits in the process and how long it has taken.
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Issue, turn-in, and lateral transfer
The DA 3161 moves property in and out of a unit and between property book accounts. Every transaction carries a document number that makes it traceable.
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Leave and pass
How leave accrues, the difference between leave and a pass, the types of leave a leader deals with, and what the DA Form 31 actually records.
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The FLIPL from start to finish
A financial liability investigation of property loss establishes what was lost, who was responsible, and whether their conduct caused the loss. Liability requires all four elements proved by a preponderance of the evidence.