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Treat DD Form 2017 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2017, Route Order Amendment, September 2005. Function: Route Order Amendment. 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.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
The set is PDF. Size: 1 pages, about 37 fields.
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
- 1. Date of request (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no separators).
- Part 1 - Request for Amendment. 2. To (SDDC Routing Authority).
- 3. From (name, address and zip code of requesting agency).
- 4. Route order number.
- 6. Type of movement. Press space bar to mark X if rail.
- Mark X if motor.
- Mark X if other.
- 5. Identification number of requesting agency.
- Specify other type of movement.
- 8. Consignee (name and address).
- 7. Consignor (show actual shipper).
- 9. Original carrier(s).
- 10. Amended carrier(s).
- 12. Vessel involved? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 14. Date vessel comes on berth (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 15. Complete commodity description.
- 16. Remarks (reason for amendment).
- 17. Requester. a. Typed name (last, first, middle initial).
- 17.b. Title.
- 17c. Telephone number (including area code).
- 17.d. Signature.
- Part 2 - Confirmation of Amendment. 18. To (requesting agency).
- 19. From (SDDC routing authority).
- 20.a. Routed by (name of SDDC technician).
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 Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
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.
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 2017?
- DD Form 2017, Route Order Amendment, September 2005
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?