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Treat DD Form 2251 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2251, Request for Door Keys and Special Locks, April 1981. Function: Door Keys and Special Locks, Request for. Because the number carries DD rather than a service prefix, the same edition covers all military departments and the defense agencies at once. Nobody issues a Navy copy or an Air Force copy.
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: 1 pages, about 92 fields.
Xfdl is a legacy Department format, IBM Lotus Forms, requiring the matching viewer. Its survival in DD distribution reflects how widely it was fielded across the Department, not any advantage over pdf today.
Free download, every format. Do not fill the form in a browser tab — browser pdf viewers handle interactive fields inconsistently and discard entries on close.
What the form asks for
- Item 3. a. Enter room number
- Item 3. b. Enter number of keys
- Item 3. a. Enter room number
- Item 3. b. Enter number of keys
- Item 3. a. Enter room number
- Item 3. b. Enter number of keys
- Item 3. a. Enter room number
- Item 3. b. Enter number of keys
- Item 3. a. Enter room number
- Item 3. b. Enter number of keys
- Item 3. a. Enter room number
- Item 3. b. Enter number of keys
- Item 3. a. Enter room number
- Item 3. b. Enter number of keys
- Item 3. a. Enter room number
- Item 3. b. Enter number of keys
- Item 3. a. Enter room number
- Item 3. b. Enter number of keys
- Item 3. a. Enter room number
- Item 3. b. Enter number of keys
- Item 3. a. Enter room number
- Item 3. b. Enter number of keys
- Item 3. a. Enter room number
- Item 3. b. Enter number of keys
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.
Submit to the office named in not stated or in local instruction; retain a duplicate before it leaves. Joint routing often sends a DD form across organizational boundaries, and tracing one afterward is not a same-day matter.
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.
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.
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.
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 2251?
- DD Form 2251, Request for Door Keys and Special Locks, April 1981
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?