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DD Form 1857 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 1857, Temporary Commercial Storage at Government Expense, September 1998., used to Temporary Commercial Storage At Government Expense. 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.
not stated is the prescribing publication and not stated the office responsible for the document. Deadlines belong to local implementing guidance, not to either of those, so a submission date is a question for the receiving office.
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.
Formats: PDF. Length 1 pages, approximately 27 entries.
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What the form asks for
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- Section 2 - Member's Statement of Facts. 1. Additional temporary storage necessary due to: Mark all that apply. Press space bar to mark X if a. Serious illness of the member.
- X if b. erious illness or death of a dependent.
- X if c. Impending assignment to government quarters.
- X if d. Directed temporary duty after arrival at permanent duty station.
- X if e. Nonavailability of suitable civilian housing.
- X if f. Awaiting completion of residence under construction.
- X if g. Other reason.
- Specify other reason.
- 2. Member information. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Rrank.
- c. Social security number.
- d. Signature.
- e. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Section 3 - Approval. 3. Installation name.
- 4. Installation address. Include zip code.
- 5. Date approved (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- All storage authorization will expire on: (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 9.a. Applicable special order.
- b. Paragraph.
- c. Headquarters.
- d. Dated. (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- e. Accounting classification.
- 10. Transportation officer information. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
Verify the edition before the first keystroke. The date on the form face should read not stated. If it does not, discard the file. Field numbering shifts between editions, and on a DD form the new layout reaches every receiving office in every service at once — there is no lag during which the old version is still normal somewhere.
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.
Where a procedure cites both a service form and a DD form, the two are unconnected. Service numbering answers to a service proponent, DD numbering to not stated or another Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Matching numbers mean nothing whatever.
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 1857?
- DD Form 1857, Temporary Commercial Storage at Government Expense, September 1998.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?