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Treat DD Form 2351 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2351, DoDMERB Report of Medical Examination, March 2008. Function: DoD Medical Examination Review Board (DoDMERB) Report of Medical Examination. 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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.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 2 pages, roughly 112 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
- This section is for DoDMERB use only.
- Applicant Data. 1. Date of examination (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 2. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 3. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 4. Date of birth (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 5. Age.
- 6. Sex.
- 7. Race (ethnic group/medically significant).
- 8.a. Applicant mailing address (include zip code).
- b. ROTC code, if applicable.
- 9. Status. Press space bar to mark X in first box if active duty, second box if civilian, or third box if reserve/guard.
- 10. Examiner address and facility code.
- Measurements. 11. Height (to nearest 1/4 inch). a. Standing.
- 11.b. Sitting height.
- 12. Weight (to nearest pound).
- 13. Pulse.
- 14. Blood pressure: systolic.
- Diastolic.
- 14.a. Repeat blood pressure if greater than 140/90: systolic.
- Repeat diastolic.
- Repeat pulse if greater than 99.
- 15. Audiometer. Right: 500.
- Right: 1000.
- Right: 2000.
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.
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.
The Privacy Act Statement precedes the personal data fields for a reason. It gives the collection authority, the principal purpose, the routine uses and whether disclosure is voluntary or mandatory. Read it while the disclosure decision is still yours to make.
Sign last, in ink or with a credentialed digital signature. A typed name in a signature field certifies nothing. CAC-based signing is the usual electronic method where the receiving system supports it. Date the block immediately — unsigned and undated certifications account for a large share of returns.
Review for the usual: old edition, blank required fields, illegibility on reproduction, date format, signature and date. Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
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.
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 2351?
- DD Form 2351, DoDMERB Report of Medical Examination, March 2008
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?