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DD Form 1299 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD 1299, Application for Shipment and/or Storage of Personal Property, September 1998, used to Application for Shipment and/or Storage of Personal Property. 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.
Requirement traces to not stated; the form belongs to not stated. Everything about schedule sits below that in local instruction, which is where to ask if a date matters.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
The set is PDF. Size: 2 pages, about 61 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
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.
What the form asks for
- 1. Date prepared (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 2. Shipment number.
- 3. Name of preparing office.
- 4. To (Responsible Origin Personal Property Shipping Office). a. Name.
- b. Address (Street, Suite Number, City, State, ZIP Code).
- 5. Name of destination personal property shipping office.
- 6. Member or employee information. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Rank/grade.
- c. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- d. Agency.
- 7. Request action be taken to transport or store the following: a. Household goods/unaccompanied baggage/items/no. of containers (quantity estimate): (1) Pounds.
- (2) Pounds of professional books, papers and equipment (or "none" if not applicable).
- (3) Expensive and valuable items (number of cartons).
- b. Mobile home information. (1) Serial number.
- (2) Length (dimensions in feet and inches).
- (3) Width (dimensions in feet and inches).
- (4) Height (dimensions in feet and inches).
- (5) Type expando (describe).
- c. Mobile home services requested. X if contents packed.
- X if mobile home blocked.
- X if mobile home unblocked.
- X if stored at origin.
- X if stored at destination.
- 8. This shipment/storage is required incident to the following change of station orders: a. Type of orders. X first box if permanent, second box if temporary.
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.
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 1299?
- DD 1299, Application for Shipment and/or Storage of Personal Property, September 1998
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?