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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2540 — DD Form 2540, Voluntary Leave Transfer Program Notice of Termination of Medical Emergency, May 1989 — exists to Voluntary Leave Transfer Program Notice of Termination of Medical Emergency, 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.
not stated is the prescribing publication and not stated the office responsible for the document. Deadlines belong to local implementing guidance, not to either of those, so a submission date is a question for the receiving office.
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.
The set is PDF. Size: 1 pages, about 11 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
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
- 1. Payblock number.
- 2. Leave recipient. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. b. Social security number. Include dashes.
- 2. c. Organization.
- 3. Leave data. a. Date transferred leave began (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 3. b. Number of hours of leave transferred.
- 3. c. Number of hours of transferred leave used.
- 4. Date of termination of medical emergency (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 5. Remarks.
- 6. b. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 6. Supervisor certification. a. Signature.
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.
Send it as not stated or local guidance specifies. Save a copy. Cross-service and cross-agency routing is normal for Department forms, and a lost original outside your own organization is harder to chase down.
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.
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 2540?
- DD Form 2540, Voluntary Leave Transfer Program Notice of Termination of Medical Emergency, 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?