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DD Form 1386 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 1386, Ocean Cargo Manifest Recapitulation or Summary, April 2006, used to Ocean Cargo Manifest Recapitulation or Summary. 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: 1 pages, about 171 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
Fillable pdf is the default choice. Its boxes hold typed entries inside the document; the printable release is a static image of the same page with no interactive layer. Since DD forms routinely cross between services and agencies before they are filed, typed entries matter more here than on a form that stays inside one office.
Xfdl needs IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible client — a pdf reader will not open it. The format was the Defense standard for electronic forms across the Department for years, which is why it persists in DD distribution long after most users moved to pdf.
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
- Press space bar to mark X in first box if Recapitulation (line 8 and 9a applicable), or second box if Summary (line 8 and 9b applicable).
- Mark X in first box if original, second box if revised.
- 1. Vessel name.
- 2. Status.
- 3. Voyage document number.
- 4. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no separators).
- 5. Loading port.
- 6. Heavy lifts.
- 7. Outsize dimension.
- Page number.
- Number of pages.
- 8. Description and location of heavy lifts and other special data. Lines a and b (both Recapitulation and Summary): (1) destination port, line 1 of 11.
- (2) If line a (Recapitulation), Description. If line b (summary), commodity category.
- (3) If line a (recapitulation), length-width-height. If line b (summary), for MSC use only.
- (4) If line a: self-sustaining?
- (5) If line a: non-self-sustaining?
- (6) Vessel (line a only).
- (7) Cargo (line a only).
- If line a (recapitulation): (8) Stow location. If line b (summary): (4) Transportation code.
- If line a (recapitulation): (9) Long tons. If line b (summary): (5) On deck.
- 9. Total cargo loaded. (1) If line a (recapitulation): Destination port. If line b (Summary): Number of units - privately owned vehicles, mail or other.
- 9.(2) Service (line a only).
- 9.(3) Long tons (line a only).
- 9.(4) Measurement tons (line a and b).
Edition check comes first, ahead of any entry. Compare the printed date to not stated and replace anything older. Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.
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.
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.
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.
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 1386?
- DD Form 1386, Ocean Cargo Manifest Recapitulation or Summary, April 2006
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?