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DD Form 1746 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 1746, Application for Assignment to Housing, September 1993., used to Application for Assignment to Housing. 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.
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.
The set is PDF. Size: 2 pages, about 90 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 is a legacy Department format, IBM Lotus Forms, requiring the matching viewer. Its survival in DD distribution reflects how widely it was fielded across the Department, not any advantage over pdf today.
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. Type service desired. a. Press space bar to mark X if military housing.
- 1.b. Mark X if housing referral.
- Section 1 - Applicant information. 2. Name of sponsor: last, first, middle initial.
- 3. Pay grade.
- 4. Social security number (include dashes) or other identification number.
- 5. D O D component.
- 6. Address (Street, city, State, zip code).
- 7. Telephone number. a. Home (Include area code).
- b. Duty (DSN).
- 8. Status of applicant. X first box if military member, second box if military spouse, third box if civilian, or fourth box if foreign national.
- 9. Marital status.
- 10. I am separated from my dependents: X first box if voluntarily, second box if involuntarily.
- 11. I request housing for: X first box if self only, second box if self and dependents.
- 13. Installation/organization transferred to.
- 12. Installation/organization transferred from.
- 14.a. Military spouse: effective rank/rate date.
- Section 2 - Military career information (Civilians skip to Item 15). 14.a. Military applicant. Effective rank/rate date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- b. Active duty service computation date: military spouse.
- c. Time remaining on active duty: military applicant.
- c. Time remaining on active duty: military spouse.
- b. Active duty service computation date: military applicant.
- d. Date of effective change in duty station: military spouse.
- d. Date of effective change in duty station: military applicant.
- e. Report date: military spouse.
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.
Submit to the office named in not stated or in local instruction; retain a duplicate before it leaves. Joint routing often sends a DD form across organizational boundaries, and tracing one afterward is not a same-day matter.
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 1746?
- DD Form 1746, Application for Assignment to Housing, September 1993.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?