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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 1074 — DD Form 1074, Questionnaire of Local Inhabitants, July 1998 — exists to Questionnaire of Local Inhabitants, and it applies across the services rather than inside one. That is what the DD prefix encodes: joint issue, single edition, every branch and defense agency working from identical paper.
not stated is the prescribing publication and not stated the office responsible for the document. Deadlines belong to local implementing guidance, not to either of those, so a submission date is a question for the receiving office.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
Available: PDF, across 1 pages, roughly 40 fields.
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What the form asks for
- 1. Person interviewed: a. Name: last, first, middle initial.
- 1.b. Address of person interviewed.
- 1.c. Occupation of person interviewed.
- 1.d. Date interviewed: four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 2.a. Are there remains believed to be U.S. forces interred in this area? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 2.c. Date of death: four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 2.d. Date of interment: four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 2.b. Who interred the remains?
- 2.e. Where were the remains interred? Include grid coordinates.
- 3.a. Are there remains believed to be U.S. forces above ground in this area? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 3.b. Who found the remains?
- 3.c. Where are the remains now? Include grid coordinates.
- 3.d. Date of death: four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 4. Was the person who found the remains a witness to the death? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5. Were remains recovered from an aircraft or armored vehicle? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5. If yes, describe type of vehicle, marking, and crew position.
- 6. Is the area where remains are located mined and/or boobytrapped? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 7.a. Were the remains tentatively identified prior to burial? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 7.b.1. Name of person who tentatively identified the remains: last name, first, middle initial.
- 7.b.2. Title of person identifying remains.
- 7.b.3. Address of person identifying remains.
- 8.a. Were personal effects recovered with remains? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 8.b. Where are effects now?
- 9.a. Was government property found and/or recovered with remains? X first box if yes, second box if no.
Edition check comes first, ahead of any entry. Compare the printed date to not stated and replace anything older. Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.
For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
Send it as not stated or local guidance specifies. Save a copy. Cross-service and cross-agency routing is normal for Department forms, and a lost original outside your own organization is harder to chase down.
Related forms are found by number alone. The DD sequence is one unified Department-wide series, so a cited number resolves to exactly one document with no branch qualifier needed.
Where a procedure cites both a service form and a DD form, the two are unconnected. Service numbering answers to a service proponent, DD numbering to not stated or another Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Matching numbers mean nothing whatever.
Revision follows directive changes, changed data requirements and amended notice language, unannounced. Verify not stated each time rather than trusting a saved copy — the cost of the check is seconds.
Limits of this page: it distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. No legal advice, no procedural ruling, no statement about whether any submission will be accepted. Applicability, eligibility and procedure belong to not stated, to a servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1074?
- DD Form 1074, Questionnaire of Local Inhabitants, July 1998
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?