Download the form
Treat DD Form 2536 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2536, Request for Armed Forces Participation in Public Events (Non-Aviation), 20160211 draft. Function: Request for Armed Forces Participation in Public Events (Non- Aviation). 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.
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.
Formats: PDF. Length 2 pages, approximately 40 entries. Pick on the basis of how you will complete it.
Fillable pdf is the default choice. Its boxes hold typed entries inside the document; the printable release is a static image of the same page with no interactive layer. Since DD forms routinely cross between services and agencies before they are filed, typed entries matter more here than on a form that stays inside one office.
What the form asks for
- Section I - Event Data. 1. Specific requirement (i.e., band, marching unit, color guard, tank, etc.).
- 2. Date of event: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 3. Time of event: from.
- To.
- 4. Title of event (website, if applicable).
- 5. Expected attendance.
- 6. Site of event (park, auditorium, etc.).
- 7. Address of event (street, city, state, zip code).
- 8. Program (describe theme and objective, audience size and civic makeup, and purpose of Armed Forces participation).
- 10. Is there any charge (admission, parking, etc.)? If so, specify.
- 11. Is this event being used to raise funds for any purpose? If yes, specify how funds will be distributed.
- 12. Will all aspects of this event be available to all persons without regard to race, creed, color, gender or national origin? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- Section II - Sponsoring organization data. 13. Name and website of sponsoring organization.
- 14. Is the sponsoring organization a civic organization? X first box if yes, second if no.
- 15. Does the event have the official backing of the local government? X first box if yes, second if no.
- 16.a. Does the sponsoring organization exclude or discriminate against any person based on race, creed, color, gender or national origin? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 17. Sponsor's representative. a. Name.
- b. Address (street, city, state, zip code).
- d. Alternate telephone number.
- c. Primary telephone number (include area code).
- e. Fax number (include area code).
- f. E-mail address.
- Section VI - Certification. 19.a. Signature of sponsor's representative.
- b. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 2536?
- DD Form 2536, Request for Armed Forces Participation in Public Events (Non-Aviation), 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?