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Treat DD Form 1212 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 1212, Laboratory California Bearing Ratio (CBR) Test Data, December 1999. Function: Laboratory California Bearing Ratio (CBR) Test Data. 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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Formats: PDF. Length 2 pages, approximately 130 entries. Pick on the basis of how you will complete it.
Default to fillable pdf, print only when you must. The fillable file stores what you type; the printable file is a blank picture. A Department form often travels further than a service form — scanned, emailed, forwarded to an agency that never saw the original — and typed text is what survives that.
Skip xfdl unless the viewer is already installed. It is the IBM Lotus Forms format, adopted Department-wide for electronic forms and still present in the set for that reason; ordinary pdf software reports it as unreadable.
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. Excavation number.
- 4. Sample number.
- 5. Condition. Press space bar to mark X in first box if disturbed, second box if undisturbed.
- Compaction data. 6. Mold number.
- 7. Number of layers.
- 8. Blows per layer.
- 9. Percent of 3/4 inch material replaced.
- 10. Weight of hammer (pounds).
- 11. Height of drop (inches).
- Proving-ring data. 12. Number.
- 13. Constant.
- 14. Capacity.
- 15. Surcharge weight.
- 16. Soaking (pounds).
- 17. Penetrating (pounds).
- 18. Swell data. Initial: a. Date.
- b. Time.
- d. Dial reading.
- e. Initial height.
- Final: a. Date.
- b. Time.
- c. Elapsed time.
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.
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.
Look up cross-referenced forms by series and number. DD numbering is unified across the Department, which removes the usual step of identifying which service issued the thing.
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.
Three drivers of revision: directive reissue, altered collection requirements, updated statutory notice text. No notification accompanies any of them, so download fresh and confirm not stated rather than reusing an archived file.
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 1212?
- DD Form 1212, Laboratory California Bearing Ratio (CBR) Test Data, 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?