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Treat DD Form 2033 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2033, Basic Operations Chart Form, September 76. Function: Basic Operations Chart. 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.
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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.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 1 pages, approximately 72 entries.
Skip xfdl unless the viewer is already installed. It is the IBM Lotus Forms format, adopted Department-wide for electronic forms and still present in the set for that reason; ordinary pdf software reports it as unreadable.
All formats are free. One operational note: save the file locally and open it in a desktop reader. Browser-embedded viewers drop field properties and lose typed data without warning.
What the form asks for
- 1. Type of chart.
- 2. Method. Press space bar to mark X in first box if present, second box if proposed.
- 3. Operation.
- 4. Operation number.
- 5. Machine number.
- 6. Part name.
- 7. Part number.
- 8. Operator.
- 9. Chart by:
- 10. Date charted.
- 11. Left hand description, line 1.
- 12. Symbols. Left hand.
- Right hand symbol.
- 13. Right hand description.
- 11. Left hand description, line 2.
- 12. Symbols. Left hand.
- Right hand symbol.
- 13. Right hand description.
- 11. Left hand description, line 3.
- 12. Symbols. Left hand.
- Right hand symbol.
- 13. Right hand description.
- 11. Left hand description, line 4.
- 12. Symbols. Left hand.
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.
Look up cross-referenced forms by series and number. DD numbering is unified across the Department, which removes the usual step of identifying which service issued the thing.
Prefix before number. A DA citation and a DD citation in the same instruction point at separate systems — one Army, administered by an Army proponent, one Department-wide under not stated — and there is no correspondence between them at any number.
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 2033?
- DD Form 2033, Basic Operations Chart Form, September 76
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?