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DD Form 2262 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2262, Receptacle Record, June 2000, used to Receptacle Record. 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.
The set is PDF. Size: 2 pages, about 64 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. PS Form 3801 data. Press space bar to mark X in first box if on file, second box if not on file.
- 2. Receptacle number.
- 3. Name of receptacle holder (last, first, middle initial), line 1.
- 4. Date issued (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 5. Receptacle combination.
- 6. Date closed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 7. Date combination changed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 3. Name of receptacle holder, line 2.
- 4. Date issued.
- 5. Receptacle combination.
- 6. Date closed.
- 7. Date combination changed.
- 3. Name of receptacle holder, line 3.
- 4. Date issued.
- 5. Receptacle combination.
- 6. Date closed.
- 7. Date combination changed.
- 3. Name of receptacle holder, line 4.
- 4. Date issued.
- 5. Receptacle combination.
- 6. Date closed.
- 7. Date combination changed.
- 3. Name of receptacle holder, line 5.
- 4. Date issued.
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 Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.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.
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.
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.
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.
Three drivers of revision: directive reissue, altered collection requirements, updated statutory notice text. No notification accompanies any of them, so download fresh and confirm not stated rather than reusing an archived file.
Limits of this page: it distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. No legal advice, no procedural ruling, no statement about whether any submission will be accepted. Applicability, eligibility and procedure belong to not stated, to a servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2262?
- DD Form 2262, Receptacle Record, June 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?