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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2710 — DD Form 2710, Prisoner Background Summary, March 2013 — exists to Prisoner Background Summary, 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.
Requirement traces to not stated; the form belongs to not stated. Everything about schedule sits below that in local instruction, which is where to ask if a date matters.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
The set is PDF. Size: 5 pages, about 200 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
Fillable pdf is the default choice. Its boxes hold typed entries inside the document; the printable release is a static image of the same page with no interactive layer. Since DD forms routinely cross between services and agencies before they are filed, typed entries matter more here than on a form that stays inside one office.
What the form asks for
- 3. Maiden name.
- 4. Nickname.
- 5. Aliases.
- 6. Age.
- 8. Sex. Press space bar to mark X in first box if male, second box if female.
- 8. Place of birth (city, county, state).
- 9. Date of birth (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 10. Race. X if American Indian/Alaska native.
- X if Asian.
- X if black or African American.
- X if native Hawaiian or other Pacific islander.
- X if white.
- X if unknown (reviewer of form will mark if prisoner does not answer).
- 11. Ethnicity. X first box if Hispanic or Latino, second box if not Hispanic or Latino, or third box if unknown.
- 12. Nationality.
- 13. Religion.
- 14. Height.
- 15. Weight.
- 16. Identifying marks (scars, tattoos, etc.). X first box if no, second box if yes.
- 17. Hair color. X first box if auburn, second box if black, third box if blond, fourth box if brown, fifth box if gray, sixth box if red, seventh box if silver, eighth box if white, or ninth box if bald.
- 18. Eye color. X first box if black, second box if blue, third box if brown, fourth box if green, fifth box if gray, sixth box if hazel, or seventh box if violet.
- 19. Gang association: X first box if no, second box if yes.
- Gang name/location (City, state).
- 20. Cult/extremist association: X first box if no, second box if yes.
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.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
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.
Prefix before number. A DA citation and a DD citation in the same instruction point at separate systems — one Army, administered by an Army proponent, one Department-wide under not stated — and there is no correspondence between them at any number.
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 2710?
- DD Form 2710, Prisoner Background Summary, 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?