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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2496 — DD Form 2496, International Student Academic Report, February 1996. — exists to International Student Academic Report, 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.
The set is PDF. Size: 2 pages, about 36 fields.
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.
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. Forwarding address. Subsequent training, if applicable, or country security assistance organization.
- 2. From. Training installation preparing form.
- 3. Student name (last, first, middle initial).
- 4. Grade or rank.
- 5. Country.
- 6. Foreign military sales case or international military education and training F. Y. and worksheet control number.
- 7. Course title.
- 8. Course identification number.
- 9. Course military articles and services list.
- 10. Duration of course. a. From (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 10. b. To (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 11. Did student complete course? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 12. Student was awarded: X first box if diploma/certificate of completion, second box if certificate of attendance, or third box if other.
- 13. English comprehension level, enter test score. a. In country test.
- 13.b. CONUS test score.
- 14. b. Language proficiency (enter ratings). (1) Comprehension.
- 14.b.(2) Speaking.
- 14. b. (3) Reading.
- 14. b. (4) Writing.
- Item 14. c. Performance in class (enter ratings). (1) Attitude and motivation.
- 14. c. (2) Attendance and punctuality.
- 14. c. (3) Ability to grasp instruction.
- 14. c. (4) Performance in practical exercises.
- 14. c. (5) Participation in class activities.
Start by matching the printed date to not stated. Old blanks accumulate in shared folders for years. Because the Department reissues to all services in one action, nobody is still accepting the previous layout by local custom.
For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
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.
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.
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 2496?
- DD Form 2496, International Student Academic Report, February 1996.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?