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Treat DD Form 2711-1 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2711-1, Custody Reclassification, March 2013. Function: Custody Reclassification. 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.
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.
The set is PDF. Size: 1 pages, about 34 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.
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. Interviewer name.
- 2. Press space bar to mark X in first box if detained, second box if adjudged.
- 3. Identification. a. Prisoner name (last, first, middle).
- c. Release date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- d. Present custody.
- e. Housing unit.
- 4. Administrative factors. a. Suicide risk. X first box if no, second box if yes.
- b. Physical health problem. X first box if no, second box if yes.
- c. Mental health problem. X first box if no, second box if yes.
- d. Special quarters. X first box if no, second box if yes.
- e. Victim/witness notification program. X first box if no, second box if yes.
- 7. Override. a. X first box if no, second box if yes, or third box if not applicable).
- f. Sex offender registration requirements. X first box if no, second box if yes.
- 5. Classification criteria. a. Offense severity (enter 1 through 8).
- b. Number of disciplinary reports (last 90 days). None = 0, one = 1, two = 2, three or more = 4.
- c. Severest disciplinary report. None = 0, Category 1 = 1, Category 2 = 2, Category 3 = 3, Category 4 = 4, Category 5 = 5.
- d. Number of negative spot reports (last 90 days). 0 - 3 = 0, 4 - 6 = 2, 7 - 10 = 4, 11+ = 8.
- e. Number of positive observation reports (last 90 days). None = 0, one or more = -1.
- f. Current programming. Completed treatment program = -2, Involved but not completed = -1, No program = 0, Failed or dropped = 2.
- g. Job performance. Outstanding = -2, Above average or higher = -1, average = 0, below average = 2.
- h. Length of sentence time remaining. Detainee or 0 - 90 days = 0, 91 days - 1 year = 1, 1+ to 3 years = 2, 3+ to 5 years = 3, 5+ to 10 years = 5, 10+ years = 7, Life/death = 8.
- i. Pending charges/warrants/detainers. No = eligible to move from minimum to trustee, Yes = not eligible.
- j. Total points.
- 6. Classification decision. a. X first box if reduce (0 - 6 points), second box if same (7 - 10 points), or third box if increase (11+ points).
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.
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.
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 2711-1?
- DD Form 2711-1, Custody Reclassification, 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?