CSM David Heidke 1502465 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>One of my Soldiers asked me for a Letter of Recommendation for an AGR position. Now this guy is great, and I&#39;m sure a letter from his last CSM would go a long way and I am definitely going to do it.<br /><br />My questions are these?<br /><br />Should I write the letter on official Army letterhead?<br /><br />If so, what should I put as the unit? Just the general Army letterhead?<br /><br />The rub is I retired 5 days ago. 2016-05-05T08:44:55-04:00 CSM David Heidke 1502465

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>One of my Soldiers asked me for a Letter of Recommendation for an AGR position. Now this guy is great, and I&#39;m sure a letter from his last CSM would go a long way and I am definitely going to do it.<br /><br />My questions are these?<br /><br />Should I write the letter on official Army letterhead?<br /><br />If so, what should I put as the unit? Just the general Army letterhead?<br /><br />The rub is I retired 5 days ago.

2016-05-05T08:44:55-04:00 2016-05-05T08:44:55-04:00 CSM David Heidke 1502469

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>also...<br /><br />Should I write it in numbered paragraph format? (I hate that).<br /><br />No matter how, I would still sign it as retired.<br /><br />I know you guys will have the right information.

2016-05-05T08:45:49-04:00 2016-05-05T08:45:49-04:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 1502721

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I have written several letters in the last year since I've been retired and I just go back to 5th grade form letter writing style or use a layout in MS Word. It's weird to look at it the first couple of times as it looks jacked up, but the Soldiers I wrote them for got the jobs/promotions they were looking for so I guess I did the right thing.

2016-05-05T10:15:33-04:00 2016-05-05T10:15:33-04:00 CSM William DeWolf 1503275

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Congratulations on your retirement CSM! I would still write the letter on your last unit's letter head clearly indicating in your signature black retired.

2016-05-05T13:06:03-04:00 2016-05-05T13:06:03-04:00 LTC Charles T Dalbec 1503386

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>CSM -- use aregular piece of paper as I don't believe you can use Army Letterhead. Ask HRC PMO

2016-05-05T13:24:36-04:00 2016-05-05T13:24:36-04:00 COL Jean (John) F. B. 1503983

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="90081" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/90081-csm-david-heidke">CSM David Heidke</a> First, congratulations on your retirement. Thank you for your service.<br /><br /> If you write it with the current date, you should not use unit letterhead. Just write it as a normal civilian letter.<br /><br />The other option, since you are so recently retired, and assuming you would have written it earlier if you could have, is to backdate the letter to a date before you retired. Yes, I know that is technically not correct, but I would have no problem doing it if I had only been out for a few days.

2016-05-05T16:19:28-04:00 2016-05-05T16:19:28-04:00 CSM Darieus ZaGara 1504294

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I would not place it on Army stationary, I would build a professional recommendation addressing my role when I knew them the best. I would also sign CSM (R).

2016-05-05T18:09:56-04:00 2016-05-05T18:09:56-04:00 CSM David Heidke 1507004

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Just an update...<br /><br />...It appears I wrote and signed this last week... ;-)<br /><br />Sent it today.<br /><br />How could I be so forgetful!

2016-05-06T16:54:32-04:00 2016-05-06T16:54:32-04:00 CPL Ricky Vasquez 1511960

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Fantastic.

2016-05-09T01:09:01-04:00 2016-05-09T01:09:01-04:00 2016-05-05T08:44:55-04:00