3-17. PROPERTY MANAGEMENT OF SETS, KITS, AND OUTFITS
a. Many items in the medical inventory are actually sets, kits, and outfits, that
are composed of a whole host of individual other items. For example, the item "Medical
Equipment Set, Intensive Care Ward, NSN 6545-00-877-6995" contains many
expendable and non-expendable items, each having its own individual NSN.
b. In order to find out what components comprise the entire end item, the
appropriate SC must be referred to. For example, SC 6545-B-CL-M12 is the reference
that applies to the above NSN and relates what components are in that list. This
presents a unique property accounting situation: The nonexpendable components must
be accounted for on the property book while the expendables must be accounted for on
informal records. Additionally, nonexpendable components that are missing or over
from sets that are issued on a hand receipt must be recorded on a hand receipt must be
recorded on a hand receipt annex.
Section III. METHODS OF OBTAINING RELIEF FROM RESPONSIBILITY
3-18. ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY TERMS REVIEWED
We have already discussed the principle of property responsibility. Someone is
responsible and/or accountable at all times for the care, custody, and safekeeping of
government property from the time it enters the service until it is disposed of in some
legal manner. We know that the person who is accountable for property is the one who
has been assigned the duty of maintaining accurate records. We know responsibility is
the obligation of an individual for the proper care, custody, and safekeeping of
government property entrusted to his possession or under his supervision. Receipt for
property is prima facie evidence of property responsibility. However, it is not necessary
for a person to receipt for property to make him responsible. Any individual may, by
possession of the property or by the scope of his duty, incur responsibility for the proper
care, custody, and safekeeping of the property.
3-19. METHODS OF OBTAINING RELIEF FROM RESPONSIBILITY
The supplies and/or equipment are now in the hands of the user. Should these
supplies and/or equipment become lost, damaged, or destroyed, the accountable and/or
responsible individual must be aware of the proper methods of obtaining relief from
property responsibility. There are five methods of obtaining relief from responsibility as
follows: by turn-in, DD Form 1131 (cash collection voucher), DD Form 362 (Statement
of Charges for Government Property Lost Damaged or Destroyed), DA Form 4697
(Department of the Army Report of Survey), and by a DA Form 4949 (Administrative
Adjustment Report (AAR)) at the property book level. However, all personal weapons
that are lost will be reported and placed on a report of survey in order to determine how
the loss occurred. The statement of charges and cash collection voucher adjustment
procedures are referred to as authorized substitutes for a report of survey. Although
these authorized substitutes exist, any commanding officer may direct the use of a
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