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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2338-1 — DD Form 2338 - 1, Inventory Control Effectiveness Report - Ammunition, October 2000 — exists to Inventory Control Effectiveness (Ice) Report Ammunition, 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.
Authority: not stated prescribes it, not stated maintains it. Those two names settle most disputes about why the form is being asked for. Local commands add timing on top; the requirement itself comes from above them.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
The set is PDF. Size: 2 pages, about 188 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
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
- Reporting organization.
- Quarter ending.
- Fiscal year to date.
- Part I. Performance. 1. Materiel release denials. a. Lines directed for shipments. Quarter: low risk.
- Fiscal year: low risk.
- Fiscal year: high risk.
- b. Total materiel release denials. Quarter: low risk.
- Quarter: high risk.
- Fiscal year: low risk.
- Fiscal year: high risk.
- c. Materiel denial rate. Quarter: low risk.
- Quarter: high risk.
- Fiscal year: low risk.
- Fiscal year: high risk.
- Quarter: high risk.
- 2. Receipt processing. a. Receipts stored and posted. Quarter: low risk.
- Quarter: high risk.
- Fiscal year: low risk.
- Fiscal year: high risk.
- b. Receipts stored and posted on time. Quarter: low risk.
- Quarter: high risk.
- Fiscal year: low risk.
- Fiscal year: high risk.
- c. On time receipt rate. Quarter: low risk.
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 Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
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.
Look up cross-referenced forms by series and number. DD numbering is unified across the Department, which removes the usual step of identifying which service issued the thing.
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.
Limits of this page: it distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. No legal advice, no procedural ruling, no statement about whether any submission will be accepted. Applicability, eligibility and procedure belong to not stated, to a servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2338-1?
- DD Form 2338 - 1, Inventory Control Effectiveness Report - Ammunition, October 2000
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?