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DD Form 1780 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 1780, Shipment Evaluation and Inspection Record, September 1988, used to Shipment Evaluation and Inspection Record. 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.
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.
Available: PDF, across 2 pages, roughly 66 fields.
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.
Free download, every format. Do not fill the form in a browser tab — browser pdf viewers handle interactive fields inconsistently and discard entries on close.
What the form asks for
- SCAC.
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- Report control symbol.
- 2. Member's name (last, first, middle initial).
- 3. Grade/rank.
- 4. Component.
- 5. Carrier name.
- 6. PPGBL/order number.
- 7. Origin PPSO.
- GBLOC.
- 8. Destination PPSO.
- GBLOC.
- 9. Code of service.
- 10. Pickup address (street, city, state and zip code).
- Press space bar to mark X if non-temporary storage.
- 11. Delivery address (street, city, state and zip code).
- 1. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 13. Missed pickup. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 14. Required delivery date (RDD) (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 15. Missed RDD. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 15. Estimated loss/damage.
- 17. Date in storage-in-transit (SIT) (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 18. Date out of SIT (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 12. Pickup date (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.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
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.
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.
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.
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 1780?
- DD Form 1780, Shipment Evaluation and Inspection Record, September 1988
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?