How to Fill Out and Submit the OER Support Form (DA Form 67-10-1A)

DA Form 67-10-1A, the Officer Evaluation Report Support Form, is completed inside the Evaluation Entry System (EES) by the rated officer and the rating chain across seven parts, starting with an initial face-to-face counseling within 30 days of the rating period and updated through follow-up sessions until the rater pulls from it to draft the final OER. Treat it as a running record, not a one-time form.

Who Fills It Out and When

AR 623-3 requires the support form for every officer in grades WO1 through COL across the Regular Army, Army National Guard, and U.S. Army Reserve. General officers are on a separate evaluation track and do not use this form.¹

The initial counseling between the rated officer and the rater must happen face-to-face within 30 days of the start of the rating period. Follow-up counseling requirements then depend on grade and component:

WO1s, CW2s, lieutenants, and captains in the Regular Army, AGR, and USAR on active duty: quarterly follow-up counseling is mandatory.
ARNG officers and USAR TPU, DIMA, and drilling IRR officers in those same grades: at least semi-annually.
Field-grade officers, MAJ through COL: as-needed, with updates whenever duties or objectives change.

These timelines come from AR 623-3, paragraphs 2-10 and 3-7.²

Accessing and Editing the Form in EES

The form is built and maintained in the Evaluation Entry System, reached through the HRC Evaluation Systems page. You log in with a Common Access Card. Anyone can create a support form in EES, but once saved, only the rater, senior rater, and authorized delegates can view or edit it.³

If you need help managing the form, use the “Manage Delegates” function on the EES homepage to grant delegate access. Delegates can create and edit forms, but signature authority stays with the rated officer, rater, and senior rater personally. Save often. EES does not auto-save drafts.

Completing Each Part of the Form

The DA Form 67-10-1A has seven parts. The rated officer fills out most of them; the rater and senior rater contribute to specific sections.

Part I: Administrative Data

Your name, grade, branch, SSN, and unit go here. Everything must match your official personnel records exactly. Check the entries against your ORB or equivalent before saving, because a mismatch can create processing errors when the form is linked to the final OER later on.

Part II: Authentication

The rated officer confirms in Part II that the administrative data is correct and that access to the support form was provided before the initial counseling. The senior rater has an acknowledgment block verifying the same.⁴ This is authentication only, not the place for rating chain identification.

Part III: Verification of Face-to-Face Discussion

Part III is where the counseling paper trail lives. Signature and initial blocks cover the initial session and each follow-up. Both the rater and the rated officer initial to confirm dates and participation.

Part IV: Duties and Responsibilities

Write your principal duty title and describe your significant duties in the current assignment. Avoid vague phrasing like “supports the commander’s mission.” Instead, name the systems you manage, how many personnel you supervise, and the resources under your control. A clear duty description shapes what the rater can write on the final OER.

Part V: Performance Objectives and Accomplishments

Part V is the core of the form. It is organized around the Army Leadership Requirements Model, with a subsection for each attribute and competency:⁵

Character: Army Values, empathy, warrior and service ethos, discipline.
Presence: military and professional bearing, fitness, confidence, resilience. APFT goals and height/weight data go here when applicable.
Intellect: mental agility, sound judgment, innovation, interpersonal tact, expertise.
Leads: leading others, building trust, extending influence, leading by example, communicating.
Develops: creating a positive environment, esprit de corps, preparing self, developing others, stewarding the profession.
Achieves: getting results.

For each subsection you enter two things: major performance objectives at the start of the rating period, and significant contributions and accomplishments as the period progresses. Concrete beats abstract. “Improve physical fitness” gives your rater nothing. “Score 280 or higher on the ACFT and maintain compliance with body composition standards” gives them something to evaluate. As you hit milestones, update the accomplishments with numbers: percentage improvements, personnel trained, dollar value of equipment managed, mission completion rates.

AR 623-3 directs raters to update the support form whenever duties or objectives change, so Part V is a running record, not a one-shot entry.

Part VI: Rater Self-Development Goals

The rater uses Part VI to outline self-development goals for the rated officer: professional military education milestones, civilian education targets, or skill-building objectives tied to career trajectory. If your rater has not addressed this section, raise it during a counseling session.

Part VII: Senior Rater Comments

Part VII is for the senior rater. Senior raters are required to ensure support forms are provided to every officer they senior rate and to use all reasonable means to become familiar with the rated officer’s performance, including personal contact and the information on the support form.⁴ What goes here informs the senior rater narrative on the final OER.

Signing and Submitting the Form

Signatures follow a set order. The rated officer signs first, confirming when the initial counseling occurred and when follow-ups took place. The rater and senior rater then sign or initial.³ In EES, click “Jump To” and select the signature block after saving.

The completed support form stays archived in EES for the rating period. Your rater draws duties, objectives, and accomplishments from it when drafting the final DA Form 67-10 series evaluation, so what you enter is effectively the first draft of your OER narrative. It does not, however, go before a centralized selection board. AR 623-3 states that the support form does not become part of the official file selection boards or career managers review.¹

If Counseling or the Support Form Is Skipped

Missing a counseling window or leaving the form incomplete does not, on its own, give you grounds to appeal a negative OER. AR 623-3 states explicitly that failure to comply with support form or counseling requirements will not constitute the sole basis for an evaluation appeal. You also cannot appeal because information from the support form was left out of the final OER, or because the rater’s comments on the evaluation do not match the support form.

What you lose instead is the chance to shape expectations early and to build a written record. If a dispute over your performance arises later, a fully documented support form with signed counseling dates gives you far more standing than a blank one.

Mistakes That Weaken the Final OER

The most common problem is treating the form as a one-time task. Officers complete Parts IV and V at the start of the rating period and never touch them again. By the time the OER is due, the accomplishments section is stale, and the rater reconstructs a year’s worth of performance from memory.

Other recurring errors:

Vague performance objectives. “Support readiness” tells the rater nothing. Tie every objective to a number, standard, or specific outcome.
Mismatched administrative data. If your name, grade, or unit in Part I does not match your official records, the form can cause processing issues when it links to the final OER.
Missing signatures. Every counseling session needs initials in Part III from both the rated officer and the rater.
Ignoring Parts VI and VII. If those sections are empty as the rating period closes, raise it with the rating chain. Completing the form is a shared responsibility.

Officers who update the form after each significant event, keep objectives current, and confirm counseling dates are documented end the rating period with evaluations that reflect what they actually did.

1
Army Publishing Directorate. Army Regulation 623-3 – Evaluation Reporting System
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Military Criminal Defense Attorneys. Army Regulation 623-3 – Evaluation Reporting System
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U.S. Army Human Resources Command. Evaluation Entry System User’s Guide
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U.S. Army Publishing Directorate. Officer Evaluation Report Support Form
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Department of the Army. ADP 6-22 – Army Leadership