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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2715-1 — DD Form 2715-1, Disposition Board Recommendation, March 2013 — exists to Disposition Board Recommendation, 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.
Available: PDF, across 1 pages, roughly 21 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
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.
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.
All formats are free. One operational note: save the file locally and open it in a desktop reader. Browser-embedded viewers drop field properties and lose typed data without warning.
What the form asks for
- Report date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 1. Prisoner name (last, first, middle).
- 3. Correctional facility/brig.
- 4. Reason for board action. Press space bar to mark X in first box if clemency, second box if restoration/return to duty, third box if mandatory supervised release, fourth box if parole, fifth box if supplemental/special clemency, or sixth box if other.
- If other, specify.
- 5. Recommendation. X first box if clemency, second box if restoration/return to duty, third box if mandatory supervised release, fourth box if parole, fifth box if supplemental/special clemency, or sixth box if other.
- If other, specify.
- 7.a. Typed name and grade of board chairman.
- b. Signature.
- c. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 8.a. Recommendation of Correctional Facility/Brig Commander.
- 6.a. Typed name and grade of recorder.
- b. Signature.
- c. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- b. Typed name and grade of commander.
- c. Signature.
- d. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Page number of this page.
- Total number of pages.
- 2. Registration number.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 2715-1?
- DD Form 2715-1, Disposition Board Recommendation, 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?