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Treat DD Form 1970 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 1970, Motor Equipment Utilization Record, November 1999. Function: Motor Equipment Utilization Record. 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.
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.
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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Available: PDF, across 2 pages, roughly 200 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
Fillable pdf is the default choice. Its boxes hold typed entries inside the document; the printable release is a static image of the same page with no interactive layer. Since DD forms routinely cross between services and agencies before they are filed, typed entries matter more here than on a form that stays inside one office.
What the form asks for
- 1. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no separators).
- 2. Type of equipment.
- 3. Registration number/serial number.
- 4. Administration number.
- 4. Organization name.
- 6.a. Fuel. Amount in gallons.
- b. Oil. Amount in quarts.
- Action. 7.a. First operator (last name, first name, middle initial).
- 9.a. Time in. Time returned, to nearest 5 minutes, using 24-hour clock.
- 10. Miles. a. in. (Operator enters odometer reading when returned, to nearest whole mile).
- 11. Hours. a. In (Operator enters hour meter reading when returned, to nearest whole hour).
- 12.a. Report to: (last name, first name, middle initial).
- 9.b. Time dispatcher signed out.
- 10.b. Miles out (Dispatcher enters odometer reading when signed out).
- 11.b. Hours out. (Dispatcher enters hour meter reading when signed out.)
- 9.c. Total. (Time in minus time out).
- 10.c. Total miles. (Difference between when returned and when signed out.)
- 11.c. Total hours. (Difference between when returned and when signed out.)
- 7.b. Second operator name.
- 9.a. Time in.
- 9.b. Time out.
- 9.c. Total.
- 10. Mileage when returned.
- 10.b. Mileage when signed out.
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.
For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
Submit to the office named in not stated or in local instruction; retain a duplicate before it leaves. Joint routing often sends a DD form across organizational boundaries, and tracing one afterward is not a same-day matter.
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.
Limits of this page: it distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. No legal advice, no procedural ruling, no statement about whether any submission will be accepted. Applicability, eligibility and procedure belong to not stated, to a servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1970?
- DD Form 1970, Motor Equipment Utilization Record, November 1999
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?