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Treat DD Form 2585 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2585, Repatriation Processing Center Processing Sheet, September 2014. Function: Repatriation Processing Center Processing Sheet. 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.
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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.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: 10 pages, about 198 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
- Are you escorting unaccompanied minor child(ren)? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- Section 2 - to be completed by the "responsible person". 1. Airline and flight number.
- 2. Date of arrival (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 3. Repatriation center.
- 4. Processing Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 5. Processing time (military).
- Section 3 - Evacuee identifying information (to be completed by the "responsible person". 6. Name of evacuee (last, first, middle initial).
- 7. Country evacuated from.
- 8. Date of birth (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 9. Place of birth (city, state, and country).
- 10. Country of citizenship.
- 11. Gender. X first box if male, second box if female.
- 12. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 13. Marital status. X first box if single, second box if married, third box if widowed, fourth box if separated, or fifth box if divorced.
- 14.a. Passport number.
- 14.b. Country of issue.
- 15.b. Alien number.
- 15.b. Country of issue.
- Section 3 - Evacuee identifying information (continued). Table 1b - Foreign National. Code 13. Specify other, if none of the above.
- 16. Classification numbers and agency codes (from Table 1 and Table 2 applicable to person named in item 6). a. Classification number.
- 16 b. Agency code.
- 16.c Classification number.
- 16 d. Agency code.
- 16.e. Classification number.
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.
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.
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.
Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when notice language is amended. None of that reaches you. Checking not stated at download is the entire defence, and it is cheaper than repeating a submission.
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 2585?
- DD Form 2585, Repatriation Processing Center Processing Sheet, September 2014
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?