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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 1789 — DD Form 1789, Armed Forces Professional Entertainment Evaluation, February 1986 — exists to Armed Forces Professional Entertainment Evaluation, 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.
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.
Available: PDF, across 2 pages, roughly 23 fields.
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
- 1. Entertainment unit number.
- 2. Entertainment unit name.
- 3. To (official mailing address).
- 4. From (official mailing address of organization/unit submitting evaluation).
- Part I - recapitulation. 5. Total performance.
- 6. Number of performances by service. a. Army.
- b. Air Force.
- c. Navy.
- d. Marine Corps.
- e. Coast Guard.
- f. Other.
- 7. Total attendance.
- 7. Cancelled Performances and Reasons.
- 9. Unit is rated: Press space bar to mark X in first box if outstanding, second box if good, third box if average, fourth box if fair, or fifth box if unsatisfactory.
- Explain if Outstanding or Unsatisfactory rating.
- 10. Unit is desired for additional tours: X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 11. Unit is recommended for Department of Defense Certificate of Esteem: X first box if yes, second box if no.
- If no, explain.
- 12. Remarks (continue explanations, any other comments or recommendations).
- Part III - Authentication. 13. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 14. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 15. Signature.
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
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 Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.
Work the printed sequence: header, body, signature block. The order is functional rather than decorative, since entries below frequently key to identifying data above them.
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.
Read the Privacy Act Statement before entering identifiers, not after. Four facts are in it: authority, purpose, routine uses, consequence of declining. Its placement ahead of the data fields is deliberate.
Signature comes after everything else and must be a signature: pen, or a credentialed digital signature via Common Access Card. Typing does not qualify. Add the date at the same moment.
Check before submitting. The recurring failures are edition mismatch, gaps in required boxes, unreadable scanned handwriting, wrong date format, and certification without signature or date. Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
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.
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.
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.
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 1789?
- DD Form 1789, Armed Forces Professional Entertainment Evaluation, February 1986
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?