What does this form do? DA Form 7580-R is titled mk 19, 40-mm grenade machine gun, mod 3 advanced crew gunnery; table 1, day and night score card, and its job is to mk 19, 40-mm grenade machine gun, mod 3 advanced crew gunnery; table 1, day and night score card. Anyone sent to find "the 7580-R" is being sent here. Everything below expands on that one function.
Am I looking at the right edition? The copy here carries the date not stated and the status not stated. Forms in the DA series are identified by edition date rather than by revision number, so that date is what you compare against.
Who is responsible for this document? not stated maintains it, and not stated prescribes when it is used and where it goes. Completion falls to the person the entries describe or to the administrative staff holding the file. As for effort: unknown page(s), roughly unknown fields.
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Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 7580-R?
- mk 19, 40-mm grenade machine gun, mod 3 advanced crew gunnery; table 1, day and night score card
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- No file published here