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DD Form 1614 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 1614, Request/Authorization for DoD Civilian Permanent Duty or Temporary Change of Station Travel, May 2003, used to Request/Authorization for DoD Civilian Permanent Duty or Temporary Change of Station (TCS) Travel. 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.
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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.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 2 pages, approximately 78 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.
Skip xfdl unless the viewer is already installed. It is the IBM Lotus Forms format, adopted Department-wide for electronic forms and still present in the set for that reason; ordinary pdf software reports it as unreadable.
Nothing costs anything here. Work in a full desktop pdf application rather than a browser preview; field behaviour in browsers is unreliable.
What the form asks for
- Section 1 - Request for official travel. 1. Date. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day, no separators.
- 3. Social Security Number. Do not include dashes.
- 2. Name (Last, first, middle).
- 4. New Position Title.
- 5. Grade or Rating.
- 6. Retirement Code (from Block 30 of employee's most recent SF-50).
- 7. Releasing Official Station and Location, or Actual Residence.
- 8. New Official Station and Location, Actual Residence or Alternate Destination.
- 9. Reporting Date at new Duty Station (four digit year, two digit month, two digit day).
- 10. Travel purpose. Press space bar to mark X in first box if between official stations, second box if renewal agreement, third box if return from overseas for separation, fourth box if temporary change of station, or fifth box if other.
- If other, explain.
- 11. Transportation mode. X if government.
- X if commercial.
- X if privately owned conveyance.
- X if rail.
- X if air.
- Mileage Rate, in dollars and cents per mile.
- 12.a. Per diem for employee? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- b. Per diem for dependent(s)? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 13.a. Round trip travel for house-hunting? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- X if actual expense.
- X if fixed expense.
- 13.b. Number of days (including travel).
- 14.a. Temporary quarters subsistence expense? X first box if yes, second box if no.
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.
A number is a complete address in the DD series. Because the sequence is Department-level and not duplicated per service, there is nothing further to specify.
Prefix before number. A DA citation and a DD citation in the same instruction point at separate systems — one Army, administered by an Army proponent, one Department-wide under not stated — and there is no correspondence between them at any number.
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.
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 1614?
- DD Form 1614, Request/Authorization for DoD Civilian Permanent Duty or Temporary Change of Station Travel, 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?