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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2209 — DD Form 2209, Veterinary Health Certificate, April 2009 — exists to Veterinary Health Certificate, and it applies across the services rather than inside one. That is what the DD prefix encodes: joint issue, single edition, every branch and defense agency working from identical paper.
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.
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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
The set is PDF. Size: 1 pages, about 22 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
- 1. Owner's name (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. Telephone number, include area code.
- 3. Address (number, street, city, state and zip code).
- 4.a. Animal's name.
- b. Species.
- c. Sex (indicate if spayed or neutered).
- d. Age.
- e. Weight.
- f. Microchip number(s). List all scannable microchips implanted in this animal.
- g. Predominant breed (followed by "mix" if not purebred).
- h. Color(s).
- 5. Vaccine. a. Producer (1st 3 letters of company name).
- b. Lot number.
- c. Virus type (killed, modified live, recombinant).
- d. Date vaccinated.
- e. Vaccination duration (number of years).
- 6. Facility address (street, city, state, ZIP code).
- 7. Veterinarian. a. Name.
- b. License number (include two letter state of issuance).
- c. Signature.
- d. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Press this reset button to clear the data from all fields
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 Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.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.
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 2209?
- DD Form 2209, Veterinary Health Certificate, April 2009
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?