Office of Field Support
Field Reports
A field report is filed on return-to-record. It documents the assignment, the equipment issued, the knowledge withheld from the employee, and any variance between what the employee recalls and what the Official Record contains. Supervisor disposition closes the report.
Filed reports
- FR-0079-14
Date Verification and Property Loss, Vesuvius District
Field record of an observation assignment at the approved date of the Vesuvius event, including one unreturned item of Bureau property and one minor variance recorded on return.
- FR-1903-08
Crowd Control Survey, Kill Devil Hills
Site survey establishing three passenger queue lanes at Kill Devil Hills in advance of a boarding procedure the Bureau has since determined never occurred.
- FR-1844-03
Corrective Contact, Baltimore Line
Field record of the corrective contact at the Baltimore end of the 1844 demonstration line, transcribed on return and countersigned by the reviewing officer of record.
How to read a field report
The body of a field report is written by the employee. The disposition is written by a supervisor. Where the two disagree, the disposition is controlling and the body is retained.
Memory variance recorded on return is an ordinary administrative entry. It is not a medical finding, and the Bureau makes none.
Directive 4.1, Nonlocal Historical Duty · Evidence register · Incident dockets