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DD Form 2278 — DD Form 2278, Application for Do It Yourself Move and Counseling Checklist, September 1998

Application for Do It Yourself Move and Counseling Checklist

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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2278 — DD Form 2278, Application for Do It Yourself Move and Counseling Checklist, September 1998 — exists to Application for Do It Yourself Move and Counseling Checklist, 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.

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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.

Available: PDF, across 2 pages, roughly 67 fields.

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. Date prepared (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
  • 2. Shipment number.
  • 3. Member or employee information. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
  • 3. b. Rank/grade.
  • 3. c. Social security number.
  • 3. Agency.
  • 4. This shipment/storage is required incident to the following orders: a. Type orders. Press space bar to mark X in first box if local, second box if permanent, or third box if temporary.
  • 4. d. New duty assignment.
  • 4. e. Orders number.
  • 4. f. Number of miles.
  • 4.b. Date of orders (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
  • 4. c. Issued by.
  • 4. g. Name of preparing office.
  • 4. h.Paying (AFO/F&AO) Navy and Marine Corps.
  • 5. Send check to (complete address).
  • 6. State of legal residence.
  • 7. b. Mark X if D I T Y move authorized.
  • 7.b. DITY move authorized from:
  • 7.b. DITY move authorized to:
  • 7. c. Mark X if I T O and or T M O provided with accurate estimate weight of H H G s.
  • 7. Entitlements. Mark X if: a. Option of G B L, van and or D I T Y move, nontemporary storage.
  • 7. d. Mark X if maximum authorized weight.
  • 7.d. Maximum authorized weight.
  • 7. e. Mark X if unauthorized items, such as P O V, flammables, etc.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 2278?
DD Form 2278, Application for Do It Yourself Move and Counseling Checklist, September 1998
Which edition is current?
Not stated by the publisher
Who is responsible for this form?
Not stated
In which formats can it be downloaded?
PDF

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