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DD Form 1208 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 1208, Specific-Gravity Tests, December 1999, used to Specific Gravity Tests. 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.
Authority: not stated prescribes it, not stated maintains it. Those two names settle most disputes about why the form is being asked for. Local commands add timing on top; the requirement itself comes from above them.
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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Available: PDF, across 1 pages, roughly 87 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
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.
Xfdl is a legacy Department format, IBM Lotus Forms, requiring the matching viewer. Its survival in DD distribution reflects how widely it was fielded across the Department, not any advantage over pdf today.
Free download, every format. Do not fill the form in a browser tab — browser pdf viewers handle interactive fields inconsistently and discard entries on close.
What the form asks for
- 1. Project.
- 2. Date.
- 3. Boring number.
- 4. Job number.
- 5. Excavation number.
- 6. Specific gravity of solids. Flask calibration data. a. Flask number.
- b. Clean, dry weight (grams).
- c. Flask plus water weight (grams).
- d. Observed temperature (degrees Celsius).
- Determination data. f. Dish number, column 1.
- Dish number, column 2.
- Dish number, column 3.
- g. Weight of dish + dry soil (grams), column 2.
- g. Weight of dish + dry soil (grams), column 3.
- h. Weight of dish (grams), column 2.
- h. Weight of dish (grams), column 3.
- h. Weight of dish (grams), column 1.
- i. Weight of dry soil (Ws) (grams), column 2.
- i. Weight of dry soil (Ws) (grams), column 3.
- i. Weight of dry soil (Ws) (grams), column 1.
- j. Weight of flask + water + immersed soil (Wbws) (grams), column 2.
- j. Weight of flask + water + immersed soil (Wbws) (grams), column 3.
- k. Temperature of water (Tx) (degrees Celsius), column 2.
- k. Temperature of water (Tx) (degrees Celsius), column 1.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 1208?
- DD Form 1208, Specific-Gravity Tests, 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?