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DD Form 2062 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2062, Record of Preparation and Disposition of Remains (Outside Continental U.S.), April 1984, used to Record of Preparation and Disposition of Remains (Outside CONUS). The DD prefix is the operative fact. It means one blank serves every military department — Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction — plus the defense agencies and combatant commands. No branch variant exists.
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.
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: 2 pages, about 138 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
Default to fillable pdf, print only when you must. The fillable file stores what you type; the printable file is a blank picture. A Department form often travels further than a service form — scanned, emailed, forwarded to an agency that never saw the original — and typed text is what survives that.
What the form asks for
- Report number.
- Report control symbol.
- 1. Thru: (Recipients and Address Authorized Distribution).
- 2. To (Recipients and address authorized distribution).
- 3. From.
- Decedent data. 4. Remains of (last name, first, middle initial).
- 5. Grade/rank.
- 6. Social security number.
- 7. Branch of service. Press space bar to mark X in first box if Army, second box if Navy, third box if Air Force, fourth box if Marine Corps, or fifth box if other.
- 8. Cause of death.
- 9. Place of death.
- 7. Specify other branch of service.
- 10. Date of death (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 11. Means of identification (complete and attach appropriate documentation).
- Mortuary data. 12. Remains received at mortuary. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Hour.
- 13. Embalming started. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Hour.
- 14. Embalming completed. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Hour.
- 15. Explain any delay in recovery, autopsy, preparation, inspection or shipment of remains.
- 16. Type of case. X first box if not autopsied, second box if autopsied.
- X if mutilated.
- X first box if viewable, second box if non-viewable, third box if viewing questionable.
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.
Route it where not stated or local procedure directs, and keep a copy first. On a Department form the receiving office is frequently outside your own chain — another service, a defense agency, a joint command — which makes recovering a lost original slower than it would be internally.
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.
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 2062?
- DD Form 2062, Record of Preparation and Disposition of Remains (Outside Continental U.S.), April 1984
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?