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DD Form 2539 — DD Form 2539, Voluntary Leave Transfer Program Leave Recipient Application, May 1989

Voluntary Leave Transfer Program Leave Recipient Application

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DD Form 2539 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2539, Voluntary Leave Transfer Program Leave Recipient Application, May 1989, used to Voluntary Leave Transfer Program Leave Recipient Application. 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.

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.

Available: PDF, across 1 pages, roughly 23 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.

Take the fillable pdf unless you have a reason not to. Fillable means the boxes are real fields that accept typed text and retain it in the file. Printable means a flat blank — no fields, printer and pen only. The difference is not cosmetic: one produces a record that reproduces cleanly through scanning and forwarding, the other depends on penmanship.

What the form asks for

  • 1. Pay block number.
  • 2. Employee identification. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
  • 2. b. Social security number. Include dashes.
  • 2. c. Position title.
  • 2. d. Grade/step.
  • 2. e. Organization.
  • 2. f. Salary.
  • 3. Leave data. a. As of (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
  • 3. b. Annual leave balance.
  • 3. c. Sick leave balance.
  • 3. d. Date available leave expires (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
  • 3. e. Accrual rate for annual leave.
  • 4. Medical emergency. a. Description (attach appropriate documentation).
  • 4. b. Expected duration.
  • 4. c. Approximate frequency, if recurring.
  • 5. Contact during period of emergency. a. Employee telephone number, if available (include area code).
  • 5. b. Other point of contact, if applicable. b. (1) Name (last, first, middle initial).
  • 5. b. (2) Telephone number (include area code).
  • 5. b. (3) Address (street, city, state and zip code).
  • 6. b. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
  • 7. b. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
  • 6.a. Employee signature.
  • 7.a. Supervisor signature.

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.

A number is a complete address in the DD series. Because the sequence is Department-level and not duplicated per service, there is nothing further to specify.

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.

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 2539?
DD Form 2539, Voluntary Leave Transfer Program Leave Recipient Application, May 1989
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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