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Treat DD Form 2331 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 23 31, Waiver or Withdrawal of Appellate Rights in General Courts-Martial Subject to Examination in the Office of the Judge Advocate General, 20160512 draft.. Function: Waiver/Withdrawal of Appellate Rights in General Courts-Martial Subject to Examination in the Office of the Judge Advocate General. 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.
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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.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 20 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.
Xfdl needs IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible client — a pdf reader will not open it. The format was the Defense standard for electronic forms across the Department for years, which is why it persists in DD distribution long after most users moved to pdf.
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
- I have read the attached action, dated:
- I have consulted with:
- Typed name of accused.
- Rank of accused.
- Signature of accused.
- Date.
- Press space bar to mark X if 1. I represented the accused at his or her court martial.
- Mark X if 2. I am associate counsel detailed under R. C. M. 11 10 b. I have communicated with the accused's, detailed, individual military, civilian, appellate, defense counsel concerning the accused's waiver or withdrawal and discussed this communication with the accused.
- Mark X if 3. I am substitute counsel detailed under R. C. M. 11 10 b.
- Mark X if 4. I am a civilian counsel whom the accused consulted concerning this matter.
- Mark X if 5. I am appellate defense counsel for the accused.
- 4. I am a member in good standing of the bar of:
- Typed name of counsel.
- Unit of counsel.
- Rank of counsel.
- Business address, if civilian counsel.
- Signature of counsel.
- Date.
Edition check comes first, ahead of any entry. Compare the printed date to not stated and replace anything older. Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.
Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
Send it as not stated or local guidance specifies. Save a copy. Cross-service and cross-agency routing is normal for Department forms, and a lost original outside your own organization is harder to chase down.
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.
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 2331?
- DD Form 23 31, Waiver or Withdrawal of Appellate Rights in General Courts-Martial Subject to Examination in the Office of the Judge Advocate General, 20160512 draft.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?