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DD Form 2263 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2263, Mailing Address/Combination Notice, January 1982, used to Mailing Address/Combination 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.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
Formats: PDF. Length 1 pages, approximately 16 entries.
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What the form asks for
- 1. Your complete mailing address is:
- 3. Your combination is:
- 4.a. Turn left/right three times and stop at:
- 4.b. Turn left/right past first number and stop at:
- 4.c. Turn left/right stopping at:
- 1. Your complete mailing address is:
- 3. Your combination is:
- 4.a. Turn left/right three times and stop at:
- 4.b. Turn left/right past first number and stop at:
- 4.c. Turn left/right stopping at:
- 1. Your complete mailing address is:
- 3. Your combination is:
- 4.a. Turn left/right three times and stop at:
- 4.b. Turn left/right past first number and stop at:
- 4.c. Turn left/right stopping at:
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
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.
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.
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.
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 2263?
- DD Form 2263, Mailing Address/Combination Notice, January 1982
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?