Officer/Enlisted.” For missing personnel, complete
the “Personnel Casualty Report (Missing/Missing in
action), Report Symbol NMPC 1770-4 Officer/
Enlisted.”
PERSONNEL CASUALTY REPORT
A personnel casualty report must be completed for
the following persons who become casualties:
Active duty Navy
Retired Navy
Certain former service members
Certain military dependents
Members of other Armed Forces
Civilians serving with or attached to Navy
commands
Others whose deaths occur on naval reservations
or aboard ships
When a member becomes a casualty, his
commanding officer should submit a personnel
casualty report.
However, if a service member
becomes a casualty while away from his command, the
command or activity that learns of the casualty
occurring should submit the personnel casualty report.
The member’s command should supplement the
personnel casualty report that was previously
submitted by another command.
METHOD OF REPORTING CASUALTIES
Personnel casualty reports should be sent by
priority message.
Action Addressees on Personnel Casualty
Reports
The following activities should be action
addresses on personnel casualty reports:
1. Commander, Naval Military Personnel
Command
2. Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
3. Casualty Assistance Calls/Funeral Honors
Support (CAC/FHS) Program coordinators of
the area in which the primary and secondary
NOK reside, or the appropriate overseas
CAC/FHS program coordinator
4. T h e N a v a l O ff i c e o f M e d i c a l / D e n t a l
(MEDDEN) Affairs
Information Addressees on Personnel Casualty
Reports
The following activities should be listed as
information addresses on personnel casualty reports:
1. Secretary of the Navy
2. Navy Finance Center
3. Navy Family Allowance Activity, Cleveland (if
the member reported is in a missing status, or if
the status is being changed from missing to
deceased)
4. The CAC/FHS program coordinator of the area
in which the casualty occurred
5. The Chief of Naval Operations (if the casualty is
incidental to operations, and on all reports of
progress in searches for missing members)
6. The appropriate home port/station, type
commander, appropriate operational and
administrative commands, and the Enlisted
Personnel Management Center (EPMAC)
7. The command or activity designated by the
CAC/FHS program coordinator to provide
casualty assistance
8. The Fleet Home Town News Center
9. The Naval Safety Center
10. The Judge Advocate General
11. The Appropriate Naval Legal Service Office (if
the casualty is the result of other than natural
causes)
12. The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
If the decedent was a Marine Corps member,
follow the notification procedures and message
formats contained in the MARCORCASPROCMAN,
MCO P3040.4.
NOTIFICATION OF NEXT OF KIN
L E A R N I N G O B J E C T I V E :
R e c a l l
notification of next of kin procedures.
In cases of death, primary next of kin are
personally notified by a uniformed Navy or Marine
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