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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2329 — DD Form 2329, Record of Trial by Summary Court-Martial, August 1984 — exists to Record of Trial by Summary Court-Martial, 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.
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.
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.
Available: PDF, across 2 pages, roughly 78 fields.
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. a. Name of accused (last, first, middle initial).
- 1. b. Grade or rank.
- 1. c. Unit or organization of accused.
- 1. d. Social security number.
- 2. a. Name of convening authority (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. b. Rank.
- 2. c. Position.
- 2. d. Organization of convening authority.
- 3. a. Name of summary court martial, if summary court martial was accuser, so state.
- 3. b. Rank.
- 3. c. Unit or organization of summary court martial.
- 4. At a preliminary proceeding held on: (day and month).
- Year.
- The summary court-martial gave the accused a copy of the charge sheet. Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5. The summary court-martial informed the accused of the following: a. The fact that the charge(s) had been referred to a summary court-martial and the date of referral. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- b. The identity of the convening authority. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- c. The name(s) of the accuser(s). X first box if yes, second box if no.
- d. The general nature of the charge(s). X first box if yes, second box if no.
- e. The accused's right to object to trial by summary court-martial. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- f. The accused's right to inspect the allied papers and immediately available personnel records. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- g. The names of the witnesses who could be called to testify and any documents or physical evidence which the summary court-martial expected to introduce into evidence. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- h. The accused's right to cross-examine witnesses and have the summary court-martial cross-examine on behalf of the accused. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- i. The accused's right to call witnesses and produce evidence with the assistance of the summary court-martial if necessary. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- j. That during the trial the summary court-martial would not consider any matters, including statements previously made by the accused to the summary court-martial, unless admitted in accordance with the Military Rules of Evidence. X first box if yes, second box if no.
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.
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.
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 2329?
- DD Form 2329, Record of Trial by Summary Court-Martial, August 1984
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?