OER Support Form (DA Form 67-10-1A): What Goes in Each Part, and How It Feeds the OER

This post is the regulation’s own wording on the form, not advice on a specific report. It is written for the company grade officer filling one out and the rater reviewing it. If you rate NCOs, the NCOER counterpart is the NCOER support form post.

01The short answer

Every cell is our paraphrase of a passage quoted in the section named in the last column. Where a cell says “in practice,” that part is founder experience, not regulation.

02What the form is, and who has to use it

The rater paragraph of the regulation makes it mandatory for the whole officer band:

(1) For officers, grades WO1 through COL, DA Form 67-10-1A is mandatory for use throughout the rating period. AR 623-3, ¶2-12d(1), p.20

The pamphlet adds where general officers sit:

Use of DA Form 67-10-1A is mandatory for use by all Army officers in grades warrant officer one (WO1) through colonel (COL). Content hereafter captures this with "(or equivalent)" language associated with support form content, as rating officials of brigadier general (BG) and above may choose to utilize other mediums. DA PAM 623-3, ¶2-1a, p.2

Our reading: company grade and field grade officers both use the same form. What changes by grade is how often the follow-up counseling happens (section 04), not whether the form is used. An officer under dual supervision gets one per chain: “When an officer is serving under dual supervision, each chain of supervision will use a DA Form 67-10-1A” (DA PAM 623-3, ¶2-1b, p.2).

03When it is used: start, middle and end of the rating period

Start. The rated officer drafts the form, using the rating chain’s own forms as input:

(a) Draft their DA Form 67-10-1A within the first 30 days of the rating period, using the rater’s and/or senior rater’s DA Form 67-10-1As as input for goals and objectives. Submitting written performance objectives for approval must be followed up by a face-to-face counseling or an alternative follow-up discussion. AR 623-3, ¶3-6a(1)(a), p.37

The pamphlet then lays out the routing after the initial counseling, step by step:

(c) When the initial discussion is completed, the rated officer dates and initials in part III of DA Form 67-10-1A. The rater will enter the date initial counseling occurred and the dates the rated officer had access to their and the senior rater’s DA Form 67-10-1A (or equivalent) prior to initial counseling. The rater initials in part III and forwards the form to the senior rater. The senior rater reviews, comments as needed in part VII, initials in part III, and returns it to the rater. The rater will return the original DA Form 67-10-1A to the rated officer for the rated officer’s signature and date in part VII. The rater will retain a copy for record. DA PAM 623-3, ¶2-1b(1)(c), pp.2-3

Middle. The same loop repeats after every follow-up session: rated officer and rater initial and date Part III, the senior rater reviews and initials, the original goes back to the rated officer for signature (DA PAM 623-3, ¶2-1b(2)(b), p.3). The rated officer keeps a working copy and updates the duties and objectives on it as they change (AR 623-3, ¶3-6a(2)(a), p.37).

End. The rated officer closes it out:

(3) End of the rating period. The rated officer will prepare a final DA Form 67-10-1A at the end of the rating period, sign, date, and submit form to the rater. Dates of the initial and follow-up discussions from the working copy of DA Form 67-10-1A will be re-entered with initials on the final copy of the DA Form 67-10-1A (see DA Pam 623-3 for procedural guidance). The final DA Form 67-10-1A will be considered by the rating officials in preparing OERs. AR 623-3, ¶3-6a(3), p.37

04Captains and CW2s: quarterly or midpoint?

The publications disagree on how often a captain or CW2 gets a follow-up session, and we quote all three rather than pick one quietly. The regulation:

(a) Quarterly counseling is mandatory for Regular Army, AGR, and USAR on active duty tours for CPTs, LTs, CW2s, and WO1s. Field grade follow-up counseling is on an as-needed basis. AR 623-3, ¶3-7a(2)(a), p.38

The pamphlet:

(a) For lieutenant (LTs) and WO1s, quarterly counseling is mandatory; for captains (CPTs) and chief warrant officers two (CW2s), the counseling goal is once around midpoint (3 to 6 months into the rating period); for field grade officers, followup counseling is conducted on an as-needed basis. DA PAM 623-3, ¶2-1b(2)(a), p.3 (“lieutenant (LTs)” is as printed)

And the instructions printed on the form itself, page 4:

Raters of CPTs, LTs, CW2s, and WO1s will also conduct quarterly follow-up counseling sessions to discuss performance, update and/or revise developmental tasks, as required, and assess developmental progress. DA Form 67-10-1A (MAR 2019), Parts I-IV Instructions, item d, p.4

Our reading: the AR and the form say quarterly for captains and CW2s in the components the AR names; the PAM says once around the midpoint. The AR is the higher authority, and the pamphlet itself says “Policy pertaining to each of these unique evaluation reports and support forms is contained in AR 623-3” (DA PAM 623-3, ¶1-1, p.1). For lieutenants and WO1s all three agree: quarterly. The other components’ intervals are in how often the Army requires counseling.

05Part by part: what goes on DA Form 67-10-1A

Labels in quotation marks below are copied from the MAR 2019 edition, the one shown in the pamphlet’s own sample (DA PAM 623-3, Figure 2-1, pp.4-6): Parts I to IV and the first Part V boxes are on form page 1, the Part V attribute blocks A through F on page 2, and Parts VI and VII follow.

Part I, Administrative (Rated Officer)

Name, SSN or DOD ID number, grade, date of rank, branch, component, unit, UIC, the “THRU DATE OF LAST COMPLETED EVALUATION” and the rated officer’s .gov or .mil email. There is no period covered block; that lives on the OER. Built through the wizard in EES, Part I autopopulates from HQDA data and can be corrected by hand (DA PAM 623-3, ¶2-1b(1)(a), p.2). The SSN is optional: “The use of SSNs on support forms is optional because these documents are used exclusively at the local level” (same paragraph, Note).

Part II, Authentication

Name, rank, position and email for the rater, the intermediate rater and the senior rater, plus the senior rater’s organization, branch, component and phone, and a supplementary reviewer block marked “(IF REQUIRED)”. Despite the heading, there are no signature blocks here (section 06).

Part III, Verification of Face-to-Face Discussion

The counseling record. One line for the “MANDATORY RATER/RATED OFFICER INITIAL FACE-TO-FACE COUNSELING” date with rated officer, rater and senior rater initials; a line for the dates the rated officer had access to the rater’s and senior rater’s support forms; and rows for “PERIODIC RATER / RATED OFFICER FOLLOW-UP FACE-TO-FACE COUNSELINGS”, each with a date and the same three sets of initials. The MAR 2019 form prints three follow-up rows.

Part IV, Rated Officer: Duties and Responsibilities

Block a, principal duty title. Block b, position AOC/branch. Block c, “STATE YOUR SIGNIFICANT DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES”. If assigned duties require an OGE Form 278 or OGE Form 450 financial disclosure, that goes in block a (AR 623-3, ¶3-6a(2)(b), p.37). One rule is aimed at raters and their own forms:

(c) Raters are required to articulate their developmental counseling responsibilities, as major performance objectives, on their DA Form 67-10-1A, part IV, block c. AR 623-3, ¶3-7a(2)(c), p.38

Part V, Performance Objectives and Accomplishments

Page 1 has two boxes: “a. INDICATE YOUR MAJOR PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES:” and “b. LIST SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS:”. Page 2 repeats that pair for each attribute and competency, blocks A through F: Character, Presence, Intellect, Leads, Develops and Achieves, the same six the rater addresses in Part IV of the OER. At the initial counseling the rater also sets the equal opportunity and SHARP goals, and the pamphlet says where they go:

The rater will also discuss and establish goals for supporting the Equal Opportunity and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) programs, fostering a climate of dignity and respect, adhering to the Sexual harassment and assault response and prevention (SHARP) program’s initiatives, and preventing and eliminating sexual harassment and sexual assault in their unit (to be included in part V, block A "CHARACTER"). DA PAM 623-3, ¶2-1b(1)(b), p.2

Block B, Presence, carries a fitness line printed as “APFT GOALS”, with blanks for PU, SU, RUN and HEIGHT/WEIGHT, marked “(ONLY AS NEEDED)”. Neither the 2025 regulation nor the pamphlet says what to write there now.

Part VI, Rater Self Development Goals

One free-text box. The form’s instructions say “These goals are beyond the current career progression that the officer is assigned” (DA Form 67-10-1A, MAR 2019, page 5). The heading says rater, and the pamphlet says “the rater will provide the rated officer self-development goals in part VI” (DA PAM 623-3, ¶2-1b(1)(b), p.2).

Part VII, Senior Rater Comments

A free-text box for the senior rater, who “comments as needed in part VII” at each review (DA PAM 623-3, ¶2-1b(1)(c), pp.2-3). The same part holds the form’s only signature line, “RATED SOLDIER -SIGNATURE AND DATE:” (spacing as printed). The electronic form also has a continuation section for Parts V, VI and VII.

06Who initials and who signs

Our reading of the form and ¶2-1b(1)(c) and (2)(b): the rater and senior rater initial Part III after each session; the rated officer initials Part III and is the only one who signs, in Part VII. There is no signature block for any rating official anywhere on the support form. The founder confirms that is how it works in practice. One mechanic catches people:

To apply changes, the rated officer will need to remove their signature in part VII. DA PAM 623-3, ¶2-1b(2)(b), p.3

The OER is different. On the OER every rating official signs in Part II, and “The rated officer will sign and date the DA Form 67-10-1 after it has been completed and signed by all rating officials in the rating chain” (DA PAM 623-3, Table 2-2, p.19).

07How the support form feeds the OER

For company grade officers (2LT through CPT, WO1 through CW2) the OER is DA Form 67-10-1 (DA PAM 623-3, ¶2-2a, p.7). The support form touches it in four places.

The duty description. The rater carries it over:

The rater will include the duty description from the rated officer’s final DA Form 67-10-1A and may include performance-related information. However, the choice of what to enter on the OER is ultimately up to the rater. AR 623-3, ¶3-7a(3), p.38

The pamphlet’s instruction for OER Part III, block c adds: “Unless changes occurred during the rating period, the duty description on DA Form 67-10-1 should be the same as the one on DA Form 67-10-1A” (DA PAM 623-3, Table 2-3, p.20). Write Part IV of the support form carefully; it tends to become Part III of the OER.

Part IV, block b: the Yes/No question. Printed in the rater’s overall performance block of DA Form 67-10-1:

A completed DA Form 67-10-1A was received with this report and considered in my evaluation and review:
Yes
No (explain in comments below) DA Form 67-10-1 (MAR 2019), Part IV, block b, p.1

The rater will also check the appropriate box concerning receipt of the DA Form 67-10-1A; comments are mandatory in part IV, block b for a "No" entry. DA PAM 623-3, Table 2-4, p.22

The rater’s assessment. “The rater uses the DA Form 67-10-1A as input to complete parts I through IV of the OER” (DA PAM 623-3, ¶2-1b(3), p.3). Part V of the support form, the contributions and accomplishments under each attribute, is the raw material for the rater’s comments. Turn the support form’s accomplishments into OER narrative comments with the free OER generator.

The intermediate and senior rater narratives. “The narrative in the OER, part V, may be based on the rated officer’s final DA Form 67-10-1A” (AR 623-3, ¶3-8a(1), p.42, intermediate rater). For the senior rater:

7. The narrative for part VI, block c, on DA Form 67-10-1, DA Form 67-10-2, and DA Form 67-10-3, and part V on DA Form 67-10-4 may be based in part on the rated officer’s final DA Form 67-10-1A. However, the choice of what to enter on the OER is ultimately up to the senior rater. AR 623-3, ¶3-9a(3)(c)7, p.44

08Where it goes after the OER is done

Not forwarded to HQDA with the completed OER:

The DA Form 67-10-1A is not used to evaluate an officer and therefore is not forwarded to HQDA with the completed OER. DA PAM 623-3, ¶2-1b, p.2

g. Although the support or form is an official document covered by regulation, it will not become part of the official file used by selection boards or career managers. Failure to comply with any or all support form or counseling requirements will not constitute the sole grounds for appeal of an evaluation report. The senior rater will ensure that a completed support form is returned to the rated Soldier when the OER or NCOER is forwarded to HQDA. AR 623-3, ¶3-4g, p.35 (“support or form” is as printed)

Our reading: the board sees the OER, not the support form. What the support form contributes reaches the board only through what the rating chain chose to write, and through the Part IV block b answer in section 07. The original goes back to the rated officer, and the pamphlet has the rater keep a copy for record (section 03). The founder confirms the finished form stays at unit level in practice.

09Check the source

Every passage above is from AR 623-3 (14 February 2025), paragraphs 2-12d(1), 3-4g, 3-6a, 3-7a(2)(a), 3-7a(2)(c), 3-7a(3), 3-8a(1) and 3-9a(3)(c)7; DA PAM 623-3 (12 February 2025), paragraphs 1-1, 2-1a, 2-1b and 2-2a, Tables 2-2, 2-3 and 2-4; and the printed text of DA Form 67-10-1A and DA Form 67-10-1, both MAR 2019. All are free on the Army Publishing Directorate. If this page and a publication ever disagree, the publication wins, and we want to know.

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