Download the form
Treat DD Form 2713 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2713, Prisoner Observation Report, March 2013. Function: Prisoner Observation Report. 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.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
Formats: PDF. Length 1 pages, approximately 38 entries. Pick on the basis of how you will complete it.
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.
Xfdl is a legacy Department format, IBM Lotus Forms, requiring the matching viewer. Its survival in DD distribution reflects how widely it was fielded across the Department, not any advantage over pdf today.
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
- Report date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 1. Prisoner name (last, first, middle).
- 4. Housing unit/dorm.
- 5. Cellblock.
- 6. Detail.
- 7. Cell no./bunk no.
- 8. Observation. a. Type of observation: press space bar to mark X in first box if favorable, second box if unfavorable.
- X if injury observed.
- X if behavioral observation.
- b. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- c. Time.
- d. Location.
- e. Was prisoner notified about this report? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 9. Observation reported by. a. Name (last, first, middle).9. Observation reported by. a. Name (last, first, middle).
- b. Grade.
- c. Title.
- d. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 10. Witness. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Grade.
- c. Title.
- d. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 11. Observation summary. Give an in-depth description of the observation; include all necessary information.
- 12. Signature of reporting person.
- b. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
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.
For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
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.
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 2713?
- DD Form 2713, Prisoner Observation Report, 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?