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DD Form 2603 — DD Form 2603, Officer Promotion Rate Comparisons, July 1998

Officer Promotion Rate Comparisons

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Treat DD Form 2603 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2603, Officer Promotion Rate Comparisons, July 1998. Function: Officer Promotion Rate Comparisons. 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.

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.

Formats: PDF. Length 1 pages, approximately 64 entries. Pick on the basis of how you will complete it.

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. Service.
  • 2. Reporting period. a. From (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
  • 2.b. To (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
  • 3. Promotions. (1) To grade O-8. (a). Acquisition Corps. c. Total screened in zone.
  • 3. (1) (a)d. Total number promoted in zone.
  • 3. (1) (a)e. Percent promotion/selection rates. (i) In zone.
  • 3.(1)(a)e. Percent promotion/selection rates. (ii) Below zone.
  • 3.f. Remarks.
  • 3.(1) To grade O-8. (b) Non-acquisition Equivalent/Line Officers. c. Total screened in zone.
  • 3. (1) (b)d. Total number promoted in zone.
  • 3. (1) (b)e. Percent promotion/selection rates. (i) In zone.
  • 3.(1)(b)e. Percent promotion/selection rates. (ii) Below zone.
  • 3.f. Remarks.
  • 3.(1) To grade O-8. (c) Total Acquisition and Non-acquisition Equivalent/Line Officers. c. Total screened in zone.
  • 3. (1) (c)d. Total number promoted in zone.
  • 3. (1) (c)e. Percent promotion/selection rates. (i) In zone.
  • 3.(1)(c)e. Percent promotion/selection rates. (ii) Below zone.
  • 3.f. Remarks.
  • 3. Promotions. (2) To grade O-7. (a). Acquisition Corps. c. Total screened in zone.
  • 3. (2) (a)d. Total number promoted in zone.
  • 3. (2) (a)e. Percent promotion/selection rates. (i) In zone.
  • 3.(2)(a)e. Percent promotion/selection rates. (ii) Below zone.
  • 3.f. Remarks.
  • 3.(2) To grade O-7. (b) Non-acquisition Equivalent/Line Officers. c. Total screened in zone.

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.

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.

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.

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 2603?
DD Form 2603, Officer Promotion Rate Comparisons, July 1998
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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