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Treat DD Form 1966 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 1966, Record of Military Processing - Armed Forces of the United States, September 2014. Function: Record of Military Processing - Armed Forces of the United States. 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.
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.
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.
The set is PDF. Size: 6 pages, about 200 fields.
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
- A. Service processing for:
- B. Prior service. Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- B. Number of days.
- C. Selective service classification.
- D. Selective service registration number.
- 1. Social security number, first digit.
- Social security number, next digit.
- Social security number, next digit.
- Social security number, next digit.
- Social security number, next digit.
- Social security number, next digit.
- Social security number, next digit.
- Social security number, next digit.
- Social security number, next digit.
- 3. Current address (street, city, county, state, country, Zip code).
- 4. Home of record address (street, city, county, state, country, Zip code).
- 5.a. X whether native born or born abroad of U.S. parents.
- 5. Citizenship (X one).
- Alien registration number (if issued).
- If immigrant alien or non-immigrant foreign national, specify citizenship.
- 1-character sex code.
- 6. Sex. X first box if male, second box if female.
- 7.b. Racial category. Mark X if American Indian/Alaska native.
- Mark X if Asian.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 1966?
- DD Form 1966, Record of Military Processing - Armed Forces of the United States, September 2014
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?