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DD Form 1842 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 1842, Claim for Loss of or Damage to Property Incident to Service, May 2000, used to Claim for Loss of or Damage to Personal Property Incident to Service. 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.
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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
The set is PDF. Size: 2 pages, about 39 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
Default to fillable pdf, print only when you must. The fillable file stores what you type; the printable file is a blank picture. A Department form often travels further than a service form — scanned, emailed, forwarded to an agency that never saw the original — and typed text is what survives that.
What the form asks for
- 1. Name of claimant (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. Branch of service.
- 3. Rank or grade.
- 4. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 5. Home address (street, city, state and zip code).
- 6. Current military duty address, if applicable (street, city, state and zip code).
- 7. Home telephone nunber, include area code.
- 8. Duty telephone nunber, include area code/DSN.
- 9. Amount claimed.
- 10. Circumstances of loss or damage, explain in detail. Include date, place, and all relevant facts. Use additional sheets if necessary
- 11. Did you have private insurance covering your property? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 12. Have you made a claim against your private insurer? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 13. Has a carrier or warehouse firm involved paid you or repaired any of your property? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- Did any of the claimed items belong to the government or to someone other than you or your family member? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- Were any of the claimed items acquired or held for sale, or acquired or used in a private profession or business? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 17. Signature of claimant (or designated agent).
- 18. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 19. Procedure. X first box if small claims, second box if regular claims.
- Part 3 - Denial or supplemental payment (to be completed by Claims Office). 23. Mark X if Denial.
- 24. Mark X if Supplemental Payment.
- 24. Supplemental payment amount.
- 25. Signatures. a. Claims examiner.
- 25.b. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 25.c. Signature of reviewing authority.
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.
For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
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.
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.
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 1842?
- DD Form 1842, Claim for Loss of or Damage to Property Incident to Service, May 2000
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?