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DD Form 2708 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2708, Receipt for Pre-trial/Post-trial Prisoner or Detained Person, March 2013, used to Receipt for Pre-Trial/Post Trial Prisoner or Detained Person. The DD prefix is the operative fact. It means one blank serves every military department — Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction — plus the defense agencies and combatant commands. No branch variant exists.
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.
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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Formats: PDF. Length 1 pages, approximately 22 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.
Xfdl needs IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible client — a pdf reader will not open it. The format was the Defense standard for electronic forms across the Department for years, which is why it persists in DD distribution long after most users moved to pdf.
Free download, every format. Do not fill the form in a browser tab — browser pdf viewers handle interactive fields inconsistently and discard entries on close.
What the form asks for
- 1.a. Received from (Unit/agency).
- c. Time.
- d. Prisoner name (last, first, middle).
- e. Registration number/social security number (last 4 digits only).
- f. Grade.
- g. Branch.
- 2. Type of confinement. Press space bar to mark X if pre-trial.
- X if post-trial.
- X if under custody.
- 4. Purpose of transfer (reason for temporary release).
- 5. Status of personal property (where prisoner's personal property is located: unit supply room, personal storage facility, home of record, etc.).
- 3. Offenses/charges or UCMJ articles violated (list article number(s) and specific charges associated with each).
- 6. Remarks (noteworthy information about prisoner's health, behavior etc. that will assist).
- 7. Receipt for person/prisoner. a. Name, grade, title.
- b. Social security number (last 4 digits only).
- c. Grade.
- d. Unit/agency.
- b. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- b. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- i. Duty station.
- h. Installation.
- e. Signature.
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.
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.
A number is a complete address in the DD series. Because the sequence is Department-level and not duplicated per service, there is nothing further to specify.
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.
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 2708?
- DD Form 2708, Receipt for Pre-trial/Post-trial Prisoner or Detained Person, 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?