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DD Form 1205 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 1205, Soil Moisture Content, December 1999, used to Soil Moisture-Content Determination. The DD prefix is the operative fact. It means one blank serves every military department — Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction — plus the defense agencies and combatant commands. No branch variant exists.
Requirement traces to not stated; the form belongs to not stated. Everything about schedule sits below that in local instruction, which is where to ask if a date matters.
Edition not stated, status not stated. That comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
The set is PDF. Size: 1 pages, about 200 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
Take the fillable pdf unless you have a reason not to. Fillable means the boxes are real fields that accept typed text and retain it in the file. Printable means a flat blank — no fields, printer and pen only. The difference is not cosmetic: one produces a record that reproduces cleanly through scanning and forwarding, the other depends on penmanship.
Nothing costs anything here. Work in a full desktop pdf application rather than a browser preview; field behaviour in browsers is unreliable.
What the form asks for
- 1. Project.
- 2. Date.
- 3. Job number.
- 4. Test site.
- 5. Sample number.
- Run number, column 2.
- Tare number.
- a. Weight of tare + wet soil.
- b. Weight of tare + dry soil.
- c. Weight of water (Ww) (a. - b.).
- d. Weight of tare.
- d. Weight of dry soil (Ws) (b. - d.).
- Water content (percent) (c/e x 100).
- Run number, column 3.
- Tare number.
- a. Weight of tare + wet soil.
- b. Weight of tare + dry soil.
- c. Weight of water (Ww) (a. - b.).
- d. Weight of tare.
- d. Weight of dry soil (Ws) (b. - d.).
- Water content (percent) (c/e x 100).
- Run number, column 4.
- Tare number.
- a. Weight of tare + wet soil.
Start by matching the printed date to not stated. Old blanks accumulate in shared folders for years. Because the Department reissues to all services in one action, nobody is still accepting the previous layout by local custom.
Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
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.
A number is a complete address in the DD series. Because the sequence is Department-level and not duplicated per service, there is nothing further to specify.
Do not read across from a service number. DA numbering is Army-specific under an Army proponent; DD numbering is Department-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. The sequences are unrelated, so identical digits in each identify two different documents. Read the prefix, not the digits.
Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when notice language is amended. None of that reaches you. Checking not stated at download is the entire defence, and it is cheaper than repeating a submission.
This page publishes a Defense document and explains its contents. It does not advise, does not rule on applicability, and determines nothing about how a completed form will be treated. Direct such questions to not stated, to the servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1205?
- DD Form 1205, Soil Moisture Content, December 1999
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?