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DD Form 1371 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 1371, Consignee's Receipt for Delivery at Stopoff or Unloading Point, September 1998, used to Consignee's Receipt for Delivery at Stopoff Unloading Point. 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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.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 30 entries.
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.From: Consignee at Stopoff Point.
- 2. Bill of lading number.
- 3. Stopoff Point.
- 4. To (name and address).
- 5. Car Initials and Number or Motor Carrier and Truck Number.
- 7. Inbound seal number(s).
- 8. Articles unloaded. a. Description, line 1.
- b. Number of packages.
- c. Kind.
- d. Number on packages.
- e. Weight.
- a. Description, line 2.
- b. Number of packages.
- c. Kind.
- d. Number on packages.
- e. Weight.
- a. Description, line 3.
- b. Number of packages.
- c. Kind.
- d. Number on packages.
- e. Weight.
- 9. Total weight unloaded (in words and figures).
- 6. Date received (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 6. Date received (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
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.
Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
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.
Related forms are found by number alone. The DD sequence is one unified Department-wide series, so a cited number resolves to exactly one document with no branch qualifier needed.
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.
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 1371?
- DD Form 1371, Consignee's Receipt for Delivery at Stopoff or Unloading Point, 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?