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DD Form 1843 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 1843, Demand on Carrier/Contractor, May 2000, used to Demand on Carrier/Contractor. 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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
The set is PDF. Size: 1 pages, about 40 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
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.
What the form asks for
- 1. To carrier/contractor. a. Company name and complete address (include zip code).
- c. Government Bill of Lading Number.
- d. M A C/Airway Bill Number.
- e. Contract number.
- b. Amount of government claim.
- 2. To nontemporary storage (NTS) warehouseman. a. Company name and complete address (include zip code).
- b. Amount of government claim.
- c. Dates in temporary storage (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers). (1) From.
- (2) To.
- d. Service Order Number.
- e. Lot number.
- 3. Claim presented in conjunction with shipment of: Press space bar to mark X if household goods.
- Mark X if holdbaggage.
- Mark X if other.
- Specify other type of shipment.
- b. Moved to (city and state).
- 5. Shipment packed. a. By (carrier/contractor name).
- 6. Shipment stored. a. By (carrier/contractor name).
- b. Stored from (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- c. To (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 7. Shipment delivered. a. By (carrier/contractor name).
- b. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 8. Enclosures. X if DD Form 1844.
- X if DD Forms 1840 or 1840R.
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.
Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
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.
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 1843?
- DD Form 1843, Demand on Carrier/Contractor, 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?