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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 1610 — DD Form 1610, Request and Authorization for TDY Travel of DoD Personnel, May 2003` — exists to Request and Authorization for TDY Travel of DoD Personnel, and it applies across the services rather than inside one. That is what the DD prefix encodes: joint issue, single edition, every branch and defense agency working from identical paper.
not stated is the prescribing publication and not stated the office responsible for the document. Deadlines belong to local implementing guidance, not to either of those, so a submission date is a question for the receiving office.
Current edition is not stated, carried as not stated. Check that against any copy you already hold before doing anything else — Department-level revisions land everywhere simultaneously, so a stale file is stale across the whole Department.
Formats: PDF. Length 2 pages, approximately 46 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
- 3. Social security number of requestor. Include dashes.
- 1. Date of request (four digit year, two digit month, two digit day).
- Request for Official Travel. 2. Name of requestor (last, first, middle initial)
- 5. Location of permanent duty station.
- 6. Organizational element.
- 7. Duty telephone number. Include area code.
- 8. Type of authorization.
- 9. T.D.Y. purpose. See JTR, appendix H.
- 10.a. Approximate number of T.D.Y. days including travel time.
- 10.b. Proceed date. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 11. Travel itinerary.
- Press space bar to mark X if variation from itinerary is authorized.
- 12. Transportation mode. a. Commercial. Mark X if by rail.
- Mark X if by air.
- Mark X if by bus.
- Mark X if by ship.
- b. Government travel. Mark X if by air.
- Mark X if by government vehicle.
- Mark X if by ship.
- c. Local transportation. Mark X if by rental car.
- Mark X if by taxi.
- Mark X if other local transportation.
- If local transportation is by privately owned conveyance, enter rate per mile.
- Privately owned conveyance. X first box if advantageous to the government, second if reimbursement is limited to cost of common carrier transportation and per diem.
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.
Sequence matters. Identification precedes content, content precedes certification, because the lower half of a form is generally conditioned on the upper half.
Nothing stays blank. N/A on an inapplicable item, because an empty box is indistinguishable from a skipped question and the form returns for it. Dates follow the format printed beside the field, not local habit — a joint form is read by clerks in several services with different date conventions, and ambiguity is expensive.
Privacy Act Statement first, personal entries second. It names the authority for the collection, what the data is for, who else routinely sees it, and whether you have to answer at all.
Certification closes the form. Ink on paper, or a digital signature — normally CAC-applied — in software that supports it. Typed text in the signature box is a name, not an execution. Enter the date beside it before closing the file.
Review for the usual: old edition, blank required fields, illegibility on reproduction, date format, signature and date. 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.
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.
This page publishes a Defense document and explains its contents. It does not advise, does not rule on applicability, and determines nothing about how a completed form will be treated. Direct such questions to not stated, to the servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1610?
- DD Form 1610, Request and Authorization for TDY Travel of DoD Personnel, May 2003`
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?