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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2516 — DD Form 2516, ASC History Log, February 1996 — exists to Moving Head Disc History Log (Government-Owned ASC's), 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.
Current edition is not stated, carried as not stated. Check that against any copy you already hold before doing anything else — Department-level revisions land everywhere simultaneously, so a stale file is stale across the whole Department.
Formats: PDF. Length 1 pages, approximately 200 entries. Pick on the basis of how you will complete it.
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
- 1. Function.
- 2. ASC.
- 3. Date opened (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 4. Date closed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 5. Disc pack number, line 10.
- 6. Disc drive number.
- 7. Opening entries. a. Day.
- b. First SOH ASN.
- c. Time.
- d. Opening reload number.
- e. Initials.
- 8. Closing entries. a. Day.
- b. Last ASN.
- c. Time.
- d. Closing reload number.
- e. Initials.
- 9. Purge date.
- 10. Purged by and date.
- 11. Remarks.
- 5. Disc pack number, line 1.
- 6. Disc drive number.
- 7. Opening entries. a. Day.
- b. First SOH ASN.
- c. Time.
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.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
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.
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.
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 2516?
- DD Form 2516, ASC History Log, 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?