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DD Form 1215 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 1215, In-Place Density Determination - Sand-Cone Method, December 1999, used to In-Place Density Determination - Sand-Cone Method. 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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Formats: PDF. Length 1 pages, approximately 110 entries. Pick on the basis of how you will complete it.
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.
What the form asks for
- 1. Project.
- 2. Date.
- 3. Job number.
- 4. Test site.
- 5. Sample number.
- 6. Additional specifications.
- Calibration of Sand (standard material. Apparatus or Tare number, column 1.
- 7. Weight of apparatus or tare filled (grams), column 1.
- 8. Weight of apparatus or tare empty (grams), column 1.
- 9. Weight of material (grams), column 1.
- 10. Volume of apparatus or tare (cubic feet), column 1.
- Apparatus or Tare number, column 2.
- 7. Weight of apparatus or tare filled (grams), column 2.
- 8. Weight of apparatus or tare empty (grams), column 2.
- 9. Weight of material (grams), column 2.
- 10. Volume of apparatus or tare (cubic feet), column 2.
- 11. Unit weight of material (pcf), column 2.
- Apparatus or Tare number, column 3.
- 7. Weight of apparatus or tare filled (grams), column 3.
- 8. Weight of apparatus or tare empty (grams), column 3.
- 9. Weight of material (grams), column 3.
- 10. Volume of apparatus or tare (cubic feet), column 3.
- 11. Unit weight of material (pcf), column 3.
- Apparatus or Tare number, column 4.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 1215?
- DD Form 1215, In-Place Density Determination - Sand-Cone 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?