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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2704 — DD Form 2704, Victim/Witness Certification and Election Concerning Prisoner Status, March 2013 — exists to Victim/Witness Certification and Election Concerning Prisoner Status, 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.
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.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
Formats: PDF. Length 3 pages, approximately 142 entries.
All formats are free. One operational note: save the file locally and open it in a desktop reader. Browser-embedded viewers drop field properties and lose typed data without warning.
What the form asks for
- Incident number.
- Installation.
- City.
- State.
- Zip code.
- Court martial convening order number, date, and issuing command.
- Section 2 - Certification of no victims or witnesses. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Signature of trial counsel or designee.
- Typed name (last, first).
- Grade and title.
- Telephone number.
- Section 3 - Certification of advice to victims or witnesses. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Signature of trial counsel or designee.
- Typed name (last, first).
- Grade and title.
- Telephone number.
- Section 4 - Distribution. Addresses (include 9-digit zip code and telephone number). 1. Military Service Central Repository.
- 2. Law enforcement/special investigation Address (include 9-digit zip code and telephone number).
- 3. Correctional/brig facility (name and address) (include 9-digit zip code and telephone number).
- Name of accused (last, first, middle initial).
- Social security number (last 4 digits only).
- 1. Name (last, first, middle initial) and age if under 18. Line 1.
- Affiliation status. Select one.
- Status. Select one.
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.
Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
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.
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.
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 2704?
- DD Form 2704, Victim/Witness Certification and Election Concerning Prisoner Status, March 2013
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?