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Treat DD Form 2285 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2285, Invitational Travel Order for International Military Student, July 1995. Function: Invitational Travel Order (ITO) for International Military Student (IMS). Because the number carries DD rather than a service prefix, the same edition covers all military departments and the defense agencies at once. Nobody issues a Navy copy or an Air Force copy.
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.
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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.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 4 pages, roughly 124 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
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
- 2. Country.
- 4. Issuing security assistance organziation, S A O. a. Name of organization.
- b. Mailing address.
- 5. Funding. Press space bar to mark X in first box if IMET fiscal year, second box if FMS case identifier, or third box if other (INL, etc.).
- a. IMET fiscal year (if applicable).
- b. F M S case identifier, if applicable.
- c. Other (specify).
- 6. International military student information. a. Name (surname in all caps, first name, middle name).
- b. Sex. X first box if male, second box if female.
- c. Country service rank.
- d. U S equivalent rank/pay grade.
- e. Country service.
- f. Country service number.
- g. Date of birth (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- h. Place of birth (city, province or district, and country).
- 7. Invitation. The Secretary of (U.S. military department):
- Proceed on or about (date - 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- From (debarkation point - home country):
- To (training installation):
- 8. Authorized training (list in sequence of attendance). No additional training to that specified in this order will be provided. a. (1) R C N, line 1.
- (2) WCN.
- (3) MASL IIN.
- (4) MASL description.
- (5) Military service course I D 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.
Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
Route it where not stated or local procedure directs, and keep a copy first. On a Department form the receiving office is frequently outside your own chain — another service, a defense agency, a joint command — which makes recovering a lost original slower than it would be internally.
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.
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 2285?
- DD Form 2285, Invitational Travel Order for International Military Student, July 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?