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DD Form 2065 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2065, Disposition of Remains - Reimbursable Basis, October 2003, used to Disposition of Remains-Reimbursable Basis. 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.
Formats: PDF. Length 1 pages, approximately 23 entries. Pick on the basis of how you will complete it.
Take the fillable pdf unless you have a reason not to. Fillable means the boxes are real fields that accept typed text and retain it in the file. Printable means a flat blank — no fields, printer and pen only. The difference is not cosmetic: one produces a record that reproduces cleanly through scanning and forwarding, the other depends on penmanship.
What the form asks for
- 1. To (Recipients and address for authorized distribution).
- 2. Name of Deceased (last, first, middle initial).
- 3. Relationship to sponsor.
- 4. Name of sponsor (Individual, Agency, or Firm).
- 5. Address of sponsor (Street, city, state and zip code).
- 6. Enter grade of sponsor
- 7. Enter social security number of sponsor
- 8. Press space bar to mark X if Option 1. I, the undersigned, desire that disposition of remains be effected as indicated below: a. Preparation of remains at the Government mortuary and return of remains to continental United States port of entry i n a transfer case.
- 8 a. Enter the cost of requested services and supplies. These services and supplies will be provided by the port mortuary. The person signing this form agrees he or she has remimbursed the Government in this amount. It is requested that the remains be shipped to the funeral home stipulated in the next field.
- 8b. Name of funeral home.
- 8c. Address of funeral home, including street, city, State and zip code.
- 9. Mark X if Option 2. a. Preparation of remains at the Government mortuary and return of remains to a continental United States port of entry in a transfer case. The port mortuary officer is requested to release the remains to the following funeral home.
- 9b. Name of funeral home.
- 9c. Address of funeral home, including street, city, State and zip code.
- 10. Mark X if Option 3 - Arrangements other than those described in Options 1 and 2.
- 10. Option 3. Describe other arrangements desired.
- 11. Relative of deceased (or other person) in Continental U S who may be contacted if necessary. a. Name: last name, first name, middle initial.
- 11b. Address: street, city, State, and zip code.
- 11.c. Relationship.
- 11.d. Telephone number, including area code.
- 11e. Date signed.
- 11.f. Signature of Sponsor.
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
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.
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.
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 2065?
- DD Form 2065, Disposition of Remains - Reimbursable Basis, October 2003
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?