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DD Form 2268 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2268, DEERS Batch Transmittal, June 1987, used to Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) Batch Transmittal. 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.
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.
Formats: PDF. Length 2 pages, approximately 25 entries. Pick on the basis of how you will complete it.
Fillable pdf is the default choice. Its boxes hold typed entries inside the document; the printable release is a static image of the same page with no interactive layer. Since DD forms routinely cross between services and agencies before they are filed, typed entries matter more here than on a form that stays inside one office.
What the form asks for
- 1.b. Originating office/code, 27 character limit.
- 1.c. Mailing address (include street address, city, state and zip code). Two lines, 29 characters each. Line 1.
- 1.c. Mailing address, line 2.
- 3. Number of documents enclosed.
- 4. Transmittal number. Enter branch of service of submitting office. Use capital A for Army, N for navy, M for marine corps, F for air force, P for Coast Guard, E for Public Health Service, I for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and O for other.
- This field is the first field for the 2 character army and navy code, or the eight character U I C or P A S code, or the R U C dash M C C or the O P F A C. If appropriate identifier code for your organization is less than 6 to 8 characters and doesn't require the army or navy command code, precede it with zeros so that each field is filled in.
- Second field for Army and Navy command codes or enter zero, if U I C or P A S codem R U C dash M C C or O P F A C codes are less than eight digits
- Enter third digit of 6 digit code
- Enter fourth digit of 6 digit code
- Enter fifth digit of 6 digit code
- Enter sixth digit of 6 digit code
- Enter first of three digit Julian date code, for example March 9 19 86 is zero 6 8.
- Enter second of three digit Julian date code.
- Enter third of three digit Julian date code
- Enter first of 3 digit batch sequence number. For the first new batch of each new day of year begin with 0 0 1.
- Enter second of 3 digit batch sequence number.
- Enter third of 3 digit batch sequence number.
- Begin entering 6 digit U I C or P A S code or R U C dash M C C or O P F A C here
- 1. From. a. Name of organization, 27 character limit.
- Enter second digit of 6 digit code
- 5. Individual forwarding batch. a. Signature.
- 5.c. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 5.b. Phone numbers. (1) DSN.
- 5.b.(2) Commercial phone number.
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.
What is here is the blank form and a description of it. What is not here is legal guidance or any assurance about a particular filing — this page is not the issuing authority and does not speak for one. Those questions go to not stated, to your servicing administrative office, or to the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2268?
- DD Form 2268, DEERS Batch Transmittal, June 1987
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?