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Treat DD Form 2706 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2706, Annual Report on Victim and Witness Assistance, March 2013. Function: Annual Report on Victim and Witness Assistance. 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.
Available: PDF, across 1 pages, roughly 22 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.
What the form asks for
- 1. Reporting office.
- b. To: December 31 (enter year).
- (2) Number of witnesses informed of their rights to assistance (DD Form 2701 upon initial contact).
- 3.a.(1) Number of crime victims informed of their rights to assistance (DD Form 2701 upon initial contact).
- b.(1) Number of crime victims informed of their consultation rights in courts-martial (DD Form 2702 upon referral to court-martial).
- c. (2) Number of witnesses informed of their right to be notified of changes in the prisoner's status in prison (escape, parole, death) (DD Form 2703 upon sentencing to confinement).
- c. (1) Number of crime victims informed of their right to be notified of changes in the prisoner's status in prison (escape, parole, death) (DD Form 2703 upon sentencing to confinement).
- d. (2) Number of witnesses who elected to be notified of prisoner status changes (DD Form 2704 once informed of their right to be notified of changes in the prisoner's status).
- d. (1) Number of crime victims who elected to be notified of prisoner status changes (DD Form 2704 once informed of their right to be notified of changes in the prisoner's status).
- 4. DD Forms 2705 sent upon status change: (1) Number of prisoner status changes.
- (2) Number of notification letters sent.
- 2. Reporting period. a. From: January 1 (enter year).
- 5. As of December 31 (enter year):
- (2) Navy.
- (3) Air Force.
- Cumulative report of total service prisoners that have required victim and witness notifications: (1) Army.
- (5) Coast Guard.
- (4) Marines.
- (6) Other.
- 6. DoD Component Responsible Official. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Signature.
- c. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
Verify the edition before the first keystroke. The date on the form face should read not stated. If it does not, discard the file. Field numbering shifts between editions, and on a DD form the new layout reaches every receiving office in every service at once — there is no lag during which the old version is still normal somewhere.
For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
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.
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.
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.
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 2706?
- DD Form 2706, Annual Report on Victim and Witness Assistance, 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?