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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2266 — DD Form 2266, Hometown News Release Information, June 1995 — exists to Hometown News Release Information, 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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Formats: PDF. Length 1 pages, approximately 73 entries.
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
- 1. P A O code, first number
- 1. P A O code, second number
- 1. P A O code, third number
- Item 2. Social security number, for identification only. Enter first number.
- Social security number, second number.
- social security number, third number.
- Social security number, fourth number.
- Social security number, fifth number
- Social security number, sixth number
- Social security number, seventh number
- Social Security number, eighth number
- Social security number, ninth number
- For releasing public affairs office use only.
- 3. Branch of service. Press space bar to mark X in first box if Army, second box if Air Force, third box if Navy, fourth box if Marine Corps, or fifth box if Coast Guard.
- 4. Status. X first box if active, second box if Reserve, third box if National Guard, or fourth box if civilian.
- 5. Rank.
- 6. Pay grade.
- 7. First name, middle initial, last name.
- 8. Sex.
- 9. Event, for example: arrival, promoted to Sergeant, received commendation medal, etc. Citation needed.
- 10. Your living parents, stepparents, guardians, aunt, uncle, grandparents or adult siblings. Item 10 a 1. First name, middle initial, last name.
- 10.a.2. Relationship to you.
- 10 a 3. Address: number and street.
- 10.a.4. City.
Start by matching the printed date to not stated. Old blanks accumulate in shared folders for years. Because the Department reissues to all services in one action, nobody is still accepting the previous layout by local custom.
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.
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.
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.
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 2266?
- DD Form 2266, Hometown News Release Information, June 1995
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?