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Contact the surviving family members to advise
them of Navy activities available to offer any assistance
necessary such as the Retired Affairs Office, Family
Service Center, DFAS - Cleveland Center (Code 302),
Cleveland, Ohio, and the Retired Casualty Assistance
Section (PERS 662), Washington, DC.
Personnel Casualty Report (Naval Reserve)
(BUPERS Report Symbol 1770-3)
Report deaths of retired members of the Naval
Reserve without pay, members in a drill pay status,
members in a drill nonpay status, and members in the
Sea and Air Mariner (Delayed Entry) program to
CHNAVPERS, so their names may be removed from the
rolls of the Navy Department. This action also closes out
their records; their accounts, if applicable, settled; and
action taken to assist surviving family members in
applying for survivor benefits.
The CO of the Naval Reserve unit where a member
is assigned in a drill pay or in a drill nonpay status or the
recruiting district of a member in the Sea and Air
Mariner (Delayed Entry) program is responsible for
submitting the personnel casualty report immediately. If
member is a drilling reservist, the CO is responsible for
contacting the next of kin to advise them of survivor
benefits that arc available and offer additional assistance
as required. Contact PERS 663 if additional assistance
is required.
The CO of any naval activity who receives
information of the death of a retired Naval Reserve
member (retired without pay) is responsible for
verification of the death and submission of a personnel
casualty report by message. The CO will also contact
the next of kin to advise them of survivor benefits that
arc available and offer assistance. Contact PERS 662 if
additional assistance is required. Submit the personnel
casualty report to CHNAVPERS with information
copies to the following:
Naval Reserve Personnel Center, New Orleans,
Louisiana
Local State Department representative when
death occurs in a foreign country
DFAS - Cleveland Center (Code JVP)
CAC/FHS program coordinator in the area where
death occurred (refer to BUPERSINST 1770.3)
BUMED
The personnel casualty report must contain only
items ALFA through GOLF and item OSCAR. Submit
a personnel casualty report containing items ALFA
through QUEBEC for a member who dies while on
active duty, inactive duty for training, or during the time
the member is proceeding to his or her home by the most
direct route. For a member in a drill (pay or nonpay)
status (inactive duty training), report in item BRAVO
(1) whether member was scheduled to perform at least
12 drills during the current year; (2) number of drills
performed; and (3) state date of last drill performed and
provide a point of contact at the unit.
Personnel Casualty Report (Terminally
Ill/Injured) (BUPERS Report Symbol 1770-4)
A personnel casualty report must be submitted by
the receiving armed forces medical command (or the
member’s duty station if admitted to a civilian hospital)
on those members whose degree of injury or illness is
categorized as follows:
Terminally ill (as diagnosed by an armed forces
medical officer)-initial report only is required unless
otherwise considered appropriate.
Seriously ill or seriously injured–a casualty
whose illness or injury is of such severity that there is
cause for immediate concern but there is no imminent
danger of loss of life.
Very seriously ill or very seriously injured
(imminent danger of loss of life)–a casualty whose
illness or injury is of such severity that the member is
not medically expected to survive the immediate 24
hours or whose death is presumed to be within 2 weeks.
Submit the report (initial and subsequent prognosis
and progress) by priority message to the following:
CHNAVPERS, Washington, DC
CAC/FHS program coordinator, as appropriate,
who has cognizance over the geographical area where
the next of kin resides (refer to BUPERSINST 1770.3)
The information addressees are as follows:
BUMED
Naval Safety Center (if casualty is the result of
an accident)
CNO (if the casualty is incidental to naval
operations)
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