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DD Form 1210 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 1210, Laboratory Compaction Characteristics of Soil (Compaction Test), December 1999, used to Laboratory Compaction Characteristics of Soil (Compaction Test). 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.
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.
Current edition is not stated, carried as not stated. Check that against any copy you already hold before doing anything else — Department-level revisions land everywhere simultaneously, so a stale file is stale across the whole Department.
Formats: PDF. Length 1 pages, approximately 164 entries.
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What the form asks for
- 1. Project.
- 2. Excavation number.
- 3. Sample number.
- 4. Date.
- 5. Layers.
- Blows per layer.
- 6. Weight of tamper (pounds).
- 7. Height of drop (inches).
- 8. Specific gravity of solids (Gs).
- 9. Diameter of mold (inches).
- 10. Volume of soil sample. Press space bar to mark X in first box if 0.0333 cubic feet or second box if 0.075 cubic feet.
- 11. Run number, column 1.
- 12. Weight of mold + wet soil (grams).
- 13. Weight of mold (grams).
- 14. Weight of wet soil (12 - 13) (grams).
- 15. Wet unit weight (pcf).
- 16. Tare number (run 1, column 1).
- a. Weight of tare = wet soil (grams).
- b. Weight of tare + dry soil (grams).
- c. Weight of water (Ww) (a - b) (grams).
- d. Weight of tare (grams).
- e. Weight of dry soil (Ws) (grams) (b - d).
- f. Water content (w = Ws/Ws x 100) (percent).
- 16. Tare number (run 1, column 2).
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.
Fill top to bottom. Identification, then substance, then certification — lower fields commonly derive from the header, and completing out of order produces internal contradictions a reviewer will catch.
Complete every field, N/A where an item does not apply, dates exactly as the form prescribes. A DD form crosses service lines, and a convention obvious in one branch is not obvious in the next.
Privacy Act Statement first, personal entries second. It names the authority for the collection, what the data is for, who else routinely sees it, and whether you have to answer at all.
Certification closes the form. Ink on paper, or a digital signature — normally CAC-applied — in software that supports it. Typed text in the signature box is a name, not an execution. Enter the date beside it before closing the file.
Check before submitting. The recurring failures are edition mismatch, gaps in required boxes, unreadable scanned handwriting, wrong date format, and certification without signature or date. Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
Route it where not stated or local procedure directs, and keep a copy first. On a Department form the receiving office is frequently outside your own chain — another service, a defense agency, a joint command — which makes recovering a lost original slower than it would be internally.
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.
What is here is the blank form and a description of it. What is not here is legal guidance or any assurance about a particular filing — this page is not the issuing authority and does not speak for one. Those questions go to not stated, to your servicing administrative office, or to the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1210?
- DD Form 1210, Laboratory Compaction Characteristics of Soil (Compaction Test), 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?