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Treat DD Form 2643 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2643, High Cost Foreign Lease, September 1993. Function: High Cost Foreign Lease. 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.
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.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
Available: PDF, across 1 pages, roughly 39 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.
Nothing costs anything here. Work in a full desktop pdf application rather than a browser preview; field behaviour in browsers is unreliable.
What the form asks for
- 1. Effective date.
- 2. Lease number.
- 3. Quarters I D code.
- Section 1 - Position Data. 4. Position normally assigned to unit.
- 5. Normal grade for position.
- Section 2 - Present Incumbent. 6. Name.
- 7. Grade.
- 8. Scheduled arrival date.
- 9. Date tour ends.
- 10. Organization assignment.
- 11. Gender and age of dependents (except spouse).
- Section 3 - Component Leasing Unit. 12. DoD component.
- 13. Executive agent (installation/MACOM administering lease agreement).
- 14. Reason for lease. Press space bar to mark X in first box if special command position, second box if country requirement, third box if attache system, fourth box if undue hardship, or fifth box if other.
- If other reason, explain.
- Section 4 - Lease Data. 15. Address (include apartment number, city, state, country and 9 digit zip code).
- 16. Gross square feet.
- 17. Net square feet.
- 18. Number of bedrooms
- 19. Number of full baths.
- 20. Number of half baths.
- 21. Land square footage.
- 22. Unit type. X first box if detached, second box if high rise, third box if duplex, etc.
- 23. Distance from work site. a. Miles.
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.
Sequence matters. Identification precedes content, content precedes certification, because the lower half of a form is generally conditioned on the upper half.
Mark inapplicable items N/A rather than leaving white space. Use the date format the form specifies. This matters more on Department forms than on service forms: the record may be reviewed by personnel outside your branch who share none of your office conventions.
Privacy Act Statement first, personal entries second. It names the authority for the collection, what the data is for, who else routinely sees it, and whether you have to answer at all.
Signature comes after everything else and must be a signature: pen, or a credentialed digital signature via Common Access Card. Typing does not qualify. Add the date at the same moment.
Check before submitting. The recurring failures are edition mismatch, gaps in required boxes, unreadable scanned handwriting, wrong date format, and certification without signature or date. 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.
Where a procedure cites both a service form and a DD form, the two are unconnected. Service numbering answers to a service proponent, DD numbering to not stated or another Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Matching numbers mean nothing whatever.
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.
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 2643?
- DD Form 2643, High Cost Foreign Lease, September 1993
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?