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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2217 — DD Form 2217, Biological Audiometer Calibration Check, January 2000 — exists to Biological Audiometer Calibration Check, 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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Available: PDF, across 2 pages, roughly 200 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
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.
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. Audiometer. a. Manufacturer.
- b. Model.
- c. Serial number.
- d. Last electroacoustic calibration date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 2. Listener. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Facility.
- c. Location.
- 4. Hearing threshold levels of test frequencies. a. Baseline. (1) Left earphone. 500 Hz.(2) Right earphone. 500 Hz.
- 1000 Hz.
- 2000 Hz.
- 3000 Hz.
- 4000 Hz.
- 6000 Hz.
- 3. Dates and data review. Baseline. a. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- b. Name of examiner (last, first, middle initial).
- c. Calibration check. Press space bar to mark X in first box if pass (plus or minus 5 dB of baseline) or second box if fail (greater than plus or minus 5 dB of baseline).
- 4. Hearing threshold levels of test frequencies. a. Baseline. Enter hearing threshold levels in increments of 5 decibels. (1) Left earphone. 500 Hz.
- 1000 Hz.
- 2000 Hz.
- 3000 Hz.
- 4000 Hz.
- 6000 Hz.
- Periodic biological calibration checks. a. Date, line 1.
- b. Name of examiner.
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.
For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
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.
Do not read across from a service number. DA numbering is Army-specific under an Army proponent; DD numbering is Department-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. The sequences are unrelated, so identical digits in each identify two different documents. Read the prefix, not the digits.
Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when notice language is amended. None of that reaches you. Checking not stated at download is the entire defence, and it is cheaper than repeating a submission.
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 2217?
- DD Form 2217, Biological Audiometer Calibration Check, 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?