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DD Form 2535 — DD Form 2535, Request for Military Aerial Support, 20160211 draft

Request for Military Aerial Support

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DD Form 2535 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2535, Request for Military Aerial Support, 20160211 draft, used to Request for Military Aerial Support. 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.

Authority: not stated prescribes it, not stated maintains it. Those two names settle most disputes about why the form is being asked for. Local commands add timing on top; the requirement itself comes from above them.

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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.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: 4 pages, about 126 fields. Everything below refines that choice.

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

  • Request number.
  • 1. Category Requested. a. Press space bar to mark X if flyover.
  • 1.a.(1) Date of event (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
  • 1.a.(2) Type aircraft requested. Mark X if Any.
  • 1.a.(2) List specific aircraft requested (optional).
  • 1.a.(3) Military service requested. Mark X if All.
  • 1.a.(3) List specific military service requested (optional).
  • 1.b. Mark X if Static Display.
  • 1.b.(1) Date of event (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
  • 1.b.(2) Type aircraft requested. Mark X if Any.
  • 1.b.(2) List specific aircraft requested (optional).
  • 1.b.(3) Military service requested. Mark X if All.
  • 1.b.(3) List specific military service requested (optional).
  • 1.c. Mark X if Single Aircraft Demonstration.
  • 1.c.(1) Date of event (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
  • 1.c.(2) Type aircraft requested. Mark X if Any.
  • 1.c.(2) List specific aircraft requested (optional).
  • 1.c.(3) Military service requested. Mark X if All.
  • 1.c.(3) List specific military service requested (optional).
  • 1.d. Mark X if Other Aerial Support (i.e. Parachute, SAR).
  • 1.d.(1) Date of event (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
  • 1.d.(2) Type aircraft requested. Mark X if Any.
  • 1.d.(2) List specific aircraft requested (optional).
  • 1.d.(3) Military service requested. Mark X if All.

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.

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.

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.

Limits of this page: it distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. No legal advice, no procedural ruling, no statement about whether any submission will be accepted. Applicability, eligibility and procedure belong to not stated, to a servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.

Questions and answers

What is DD Form 2535?
DD Form 2535, Request for Military Aerial Support, 20160211 draft
Which edition is current?
Not stated by the publisher
Who is responsible for this form?
Not stated
In which formats can it be downloaded?
PDF

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