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Treat DD Form 1863 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 1863, Accessorial Services - Mobile Homes, September 1998. Function: Accessorial Services-Mobile Home. Because the number carries DD rather than a service prefix, the same edition covers all military departments and the defense agencies at once. Nobody issues a Navy copy or an Air Force copy.
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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Formats: PDF. Length 2 pages, approximately 152 entries.
Xfdl is a legacy Department format, IBM Lotus Forms, requiring the matching viewer. Its survival in DD distribution reflects how widely it was fielded across the Department, not any advantage over pdf today.
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
- Section 2 - Certificate of carrier. 8. Carrier furnished materials/performed services as indicated hereon. Press space bar to mark X if at Origin.
- 8. Mark X if at destination.
- 8. Mark X if other.
- 18.j. Preparation for movement. (1) Description.
- 18.j.(2) Unit price.
- 18.j.(3) Charge or no charge (N/C).
- 18.k. Appliance servicing. (1) Description.
- 18.k.(2) Unit price.
- 18.k.(3) Charge or no charge (N/C).
- 18.l. Other, line 2.
- 18.l. (1) Description.
- 18.l.(2) Unit price.
- 18.l.(3) Charge or no charge (N/C).
- 18.l. Other, line 3.
- 18.l. (1) Description.
- 18.l.(2) Unit price.
- 18.l.(3) Charge or no charge (N/C).
- 18.l. Other, line 4.
- 18.l. (1) Description.
- 18.l.(2) Unit price.
- 18.l.(3) Charge or no charge (N/C).
- 18.l. Other, line 5.
- 18.l. (1) Description.
- 18.l.(2) Unit price.
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.
Sequence matters. Identification precedes content, content precedes certification, because the lower half of a form is generally conditioned on the upper half.
Mark inapplicable items N/A rather than leaving white space. Use the date format the form specifies. This matters more on Department forms than on service forms: the record may be reviewed by personnel outside your branch who share none of your office conventions.
The Privacy Act Statement precedes the personal data fields for a reason. It gives the collection authority, the principal purpose, the routine uses and whether disclosure is voluntary or mandatory. Read it while the disclosure decision is still yours to make.
Certification closes the form. Ink on paper, or a digital signature — normally CAC-applied — in software that supports it. Typed text in the signature box is a name, not an execution. Enter the date beside it before closing the file.
Final pass, against the standing defect list: superseded edition, empty mandatory fields, handwriting illegible after scanning, non-conforming dates, missing signature or date. For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
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.
Do not read across from a service number. DA numbering is Army-specific under an Army proponent; DD numbering is Department-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. The sequences are unrelated, so identical digits in each identify two different documents. Read the prefix, not the digits.
Revision follows directive changes, changed data requirements and amended notice language, unannounced. Verify not stated each time rather than trusting a saved copy — the cost of the check is seconds.
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Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1863?
- DD Form 1863, Accessorial Services - Mobile Homes, 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?