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DD Form 1216 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 1216, Specific Gravity of Bituminous Mix Components, December 1965, used to Bituminous Mix Components, Specific Gravity of. 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.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
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What the form asks for
- Date.
- Project.
- Job.
- Coarse aggregate. Material: sieve.
- Retained on: sieve.
- Sample number, column 1.
- Sample number, column 2.
- Sample number, column 3.
- Sample number, column 4.
- 1. Weight of oven - dry aggregate (grams).
- 2. Weight of saturated aggregate in water.
- 1. Weight of oven - dry aggregate.
- 2. Weight of saturated aggregate in water.
- 1. Weight of oven - dry aggregate.
- 2. Weight of saturated aggregate in water.
- 1. Weight of oven - dry aggregate.
- 2. Weight of saturated aggregate in water.
- 3. Difference (line 1 minus line 2).
- 3. Difference (line 1 minus line 2).
- 3. Difference (line 1 minus line 2).
- 3. Difference (line 1 minus line 2).
- Apparent specific gravity, G (line 1 divided by line 3).
- Fine aggregate. Material passing number: sieve.
- Sample number, column 1.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1216?
- DD Form 1216, Specific Gravity of Bituminous Mix Components, December 1965
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?