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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2342 — DD Form 2342, Animal Facility Sanitation Checklist, August 2013 — exists to Animal Facility Sanitation 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.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
Formats: PDF. Length 1 pages, approximately 27 entries. Pick on the basis of how you will complete it.
Fillable pdf is the default choice. Its boxes hold typed entries inside the document; the printable release is a static image of the same page with no interactive layer. Since DD forms routinely cross between services and agencies before they are filed, typed entries matter more here than on a form that stays inside one office.
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.
All formats are free. One operational note: save the file locally and open it in a desktop reader. Browser-embedded viewers drop field properties and lose typed data without warning.
What the form asks for
- 1. Date of inspection (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 2. Area.
- 4. Name and rank of facility supervisor (last, first, middle initial).
- 5. Name and rank of veterinary inspector (last, first, middle initial).
- 3. Building number.
- Section I - Sanitary inspection. 1. Premises. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 2. Stalls/kennels. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 3. Tack/equipment rooms. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 4. Feed quality and storage. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 5. Water troughs/pans. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 6. Animal waste disposal. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 7. Trash disposal. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 8. Insect and rodent control. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 9. Quarantine and isolation area. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 10. Equipment. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 11. Water supply. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 12. Pastures/training areas. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 13. Remarks and recommendations.
- Section II - Animal preventive health measures. 1. Condition/grooming. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 2. Personnel training. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 3. Feed and water schedule. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 4. Quarantine measures. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 5. Required vaccinations. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 6. Safety measures. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
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.
Work the printed sequence: header, body, signature block. The order is functional rather than decorative, since entries below frequently key to identifying data above them.
Complete every field, N/A where an item does not apply, dates exactly as the form prescribes. A DD form crosses service lines, and a convention obvious in one branch is not obvious in the next.
Read the Privacy Act Statement before entering identifiers, not after. Four facts are in it: authority, purpose, routine uses, consequence of declining. Its placement ahead of the data fields is deliberate.
Certification closes the form. Ink on paper, or a digital signature — normally CAC-applied — in software that supports it. Typed text in the signature box is a name, not an execution. Enter the date beside it before closing the file.
Final pass, against the standing defect list: superseded edition, empty mandatory fields, handwriting illegible after scanning, non-conforming dates, missing signature or date. For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
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.
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.
Prefix before number. A DA citation and a DD citation in the same instruction point at separate systems — one Army, administered by an Army proponent, one Department-wide under not stated — and there is no correspondence between them at any number.
Revision follows directive changes, changed data requirements and amended notice language, unannounced. Verify not stated each time rather than trusting a saved copy — the cost of the check is seconds.
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Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2342?
- DD Form 2342, Animal Facility Sanitation Checklist, August 2013
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?