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DD Form 2406 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2406, Miscellaneous Obligation Document, October 1985, used to Miscellaneous Obligation Document. The DD prefix is the operative fact. It means one blank serves every military department — Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction — plus the defense agencies and combatant commands. No branch variant exists.
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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
The set is PDF. Size: 2 pages, about 200 fields.
Nothing costs anything here. Work in a full desktop pdf application rather than a browser preview; field behaviour in browsers is unreliable.
What the form asks for
- 1. Miscellaneous obligation document number.
- 3. Date prepared.
- 4. Installation. a. Name.
- 4.b. Address.
- 5. Prepared by. a. Signature.
- 5.b. Title.
- 6. Approved by. a. Signature.
- 6.b. Title.
- 7. Description, line 1.
- 8. Amount, line 1.
- 7. Description, line 2.
- 8. Amount, line 2.
- Balance. Press space bar to mark X in first box if unliquidated, second box if undelivered.
- (1) Date, line 3.
- (2) Description.
- (3) Obligation.
- (4) Accrued expenditure.
- (5) Accounts payable balance.
- (6) Disbursement.
- (7) Balance.
- (1) Date, line 10.
- (2) Description.
- (3) Obligation.
- (4) Accrued expenditure.
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.
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.
Related forms are found by number alone. The DD sequence is one unified Department-wide series, so a cited number resolves to exactly one document with no branch qualifier needed.
Do not read across from a service number. DA numbering is Army-specific under an Army proponent; DD numbering is Department-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. The sequences are unrelated, so identical digits in each identify two different documents. Read the prefix, not the digits.
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.
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 2406?
- DD Form 2406, Miscellaneous Obligation Document, October 1985
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?