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Treat DD Form 1206 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 1206, Grain-Size Analysis (Sieve Method), December 1999. Function: Grain-Size Analysis (Sieve Method). Because the number carries DD rather than a service prefix, the same edition covers all military departments and the defense agencies at once. Nobody issues a Navy copy or an Air Force copy.
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.
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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.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 113 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
Fillable pdf is the default choice. Its boxes hold typed entries inside the document; the printable release is a static image of the same page with no interactive layer. Since DD forms routinely cross between services and agencies before they are filed, typed entries matter more here than on a form that stays inside one office.
All formats are free. One operational note: save the file locally and open it in a desktop reader. Browser-embedded viewers drop field properties and lose typed data without warning.
What the form asks for
- 1. Project.
- 2. Date.
- 3. Job number.
- 4. Excavation.
- 5. Date completed.
- 6. Notes about sample/description.
- 7. Sample number.
- 8. Original sample weight.
- 9. Prewashed? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 10. Plus #200 sample weight, washed.
- 11. Minus #200 sample weight, washed.
- 12. Sieve size.
- 13. Sieve weight.
- 14. Sieve-sample weight.
- 15. Weight retained.
- 16. Cumulative weight retained.
- 17. Percent retained.
- 18. Percent passing.
- 19. Total weight retained in sieves (sum of column 15).
- 20. Weight sieved through #200 (weight in pan).
- 22. Total weight passing #200 sieve (20 + 11).
- 24. Error (8 - 23).
- 25. Error in percentage (24/8 X 100).
- 21. Washing loss (8 - (10 + 11))
Verify the edition before the first keystroke. The date on the form face should read not stated. If it does not, discard the file. Field numbering shifts between editions, and on a DD form the new layout reaches every receiving office in every service at once — there is no lag during which the old version is still normal somewhere.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
Submit to the office named in not stated or in local instruction; retain a duplicate before it leaves. Joint routing often sends a DD form across organizational boundaries, and tracing one afterward is not a same-day matter.
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.
Prefix before number. A DA citation and a DD citation in the same instruction point at separate systems — one Army, administered by an Army proponent, one Department-wide under not stated — and there is no correspondence between them at any number.
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 1206?
- DD Form 1206, Grain-Size Analysis (Sieve Method), 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?