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DD Form 2711 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2711, Initial Custody Classification, March 2013, used to Initial Custody Classification. 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.
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.
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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
The set is PDF. Size: 4 pages, about 78 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
Default to fillable pdf, print only when you must. The fillable file stores what you type; the printable file is a blank picture. A Department form often travels further than a service form — scanned, emailed, forwarded to an agency that never saw the original — and typed text is what survives that.
What the form asks for
- 1. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 2. Interviewer name.
- 3. Press space bar to mark X in first box if pre-trial, second box if post-trial.
- Classification worksheet. 11. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 12. Time.
- 13. Interviewer name.
- 14. X first box if pre-trial, second box if post-trial.
- 4. Identification. a. Prisoner name (last, first, middle) (also known as).
- 16. Administrative factors. a. Suicide risk. (1) How do you feel about being here?
- (2) Have you ever thought about committing suicide? X first box if no, second box if yes.
- If (1) or (2) is yes: (3) Have you ever been disciplined in the service or fired from a job because of drug or alcohol use? X first box if no, second box if yes.
- 17. Management factors. a. What charge(s) are you confined for?
- b. Substance abuse. (1) Have you ever used drugs or alcohol? Drugs: X first box if no, second box if yes.
- Alcohol: X first box if no, second box if yes.
- (2) Have you ever used drugs/alcohol in this enlistment? Drugs: X first box if no, second box if yes.
- Alcohol: X first box if no, second box if yes.
- If (1) or (2) is yes: (3) Have you ever been disciplined in the service or fired from a job because of drug or alcohol use? X first box if no, second box if yes.
- (4) Has drug/alcohol use ever led to family problems or conflicts? X first box if no, second box if yes.
- (5) Have you ever been arrested while under the influence of drugs or alcohol? X first box if no, second box if yes.
- (6) Has use of drugs/alcohol resulted in other problems, such as blackouts or loss of friends? X first box if no, second box if yes.
- c. Pending charges/warrants/detainers. Do you have any outstanding warrants/detainers or additional pending charges? X first box if no, second box if yes.
- If yes, explain.
- d. History of violence. (1) Have you ever assaulted another person? X first box if no, second box if yes.
- If yes: (2) Non-physical altercation? X first box if no, second box if yes.
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.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
Submit to the office named in not stated or in local instruction; retain a duplicate before it leaves. Joint routing often sends a DD form across organizational boundaries, and tracing one afterward is not a same-day matter.
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.
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.
Limits of this page: it distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. No legal advice, no procedural ruling, no statement about whether any submission will be accepted. Applicability, eligibility and procedure belong to not stated, to a servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2711?
- DD Form 2711, Initial Custody Classification, 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?