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DD Form 2260 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2260, Unit Mail Clerk/Orderly Designation Log, May 2000, used to Unit Mail-Clerk/Orderly Designation Log. 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.
Requirement traces to not stated; the form belongs to not stated. Everything about schedule sits below that in local instruction, which is where to ask if a date matters.
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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.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 154 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.
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.
Nothing costs anything here. Work in a full desktop pdf application rather than a browser preview; field behaviour in browsers is unreliable.
What the form asks for
- 1. Card number, line 10.
- 2. Date issued.
- 3. Date revoked.
- 4. Activity identifier.
- 5. Name of designee.
- 6. Designee signature.
- 7. Appointing official signature.
- 8. Pay grade.
- 1. Card number, line 1.
- 2. Date issued (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 3. Date revoked (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 4. Activity identifier.
- 5. Name of designee (print) (last, first, middle initial).
- 6. Designee signature.
- 7. Appointing official signature.
- 8. Pay grade.
- 1. Card number, line 2.
- 2. Date issued.
- 3. Date revoked.
- 4. Activity identifier.
- 5. Name of designee.
- 6. Designee signature.
- 7. Appointing official signature.
- 8. Pay grade.
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.
Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
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.
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.
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 2260?
- DD Form 2260, Unit Mail Clerk/Orderly Designation Log, May 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?