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DD Form 2214 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2214, Noise Survey, January 2000, used to Noise Survey. 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.
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.
Current edition is not stated, carried as not stated. Check that against any copy you already hold before doing anything else — Department-level revisions land everywhere simultaneously, so a stale file is stale across the whole Department.
Available: PDF, across 2 pages, roughly 66 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
Fillable pdf is the default choice. Its boxes hold typed entries inside the document; the printable release is a static image of the same page with no interactive layer. Since DD forms routinely cross between services and agencies before they are filed, typed entries matter more here than on a form that stays inside one office.
What the form asks for
- 1. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 2. Type. Enter 1 if initial survey, 2 if re-survey, or 3 if other.
- d. Last electroacoustic calibration date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 4. Microphone. a. Manufacturer.
- b. Model.
- c. Serial number.
- d. Last electroacoustic calibration date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 5. Calibrator. a. Manufacturer.
- b. Model.
- c. Serial number.
- 3. Sound level meter. a. Manufacturer.
- b. Model.
- c. Serial number.
- d. Last electroacoustic calibration date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 6. Wind screen. Press space bar to mark X in first box if used, second box if not used.
- 7. Measurements obtained: X first box if indoors, second box if outdoors.
- 8. Description of areas or duties where noise survey conducted.
- 9. Primary source of noise.
- 10. Secondary source of noise.
- 12. Protection required. X first box if none (less than 85 dBA), second box if plug or muff (85-108), third box if plug and muff (108-118), or fourth box if plug, muff, and time limit (greater than 118).
- 11. Sound level data. a. Location, line 1.
- b. Meter action.
- c. dBC. (Sound levels taken with meter switch in C position.)
- d. dBA. (Sound levels taken with meter switch in A position.)
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.
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.
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.
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 2214?
- DD Form 2214, Noise Survey, January 2000
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?