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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2715-3 — DD Form 2715-3, Prisoner Restoration/Return to Duty, Clemency and Parole Statement, March 2013 — exists to Prisoner Restoration/Return to Duty, Clemency and Parole Statement, 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.
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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Formats: PDF. Length 2 pages, approximately 47 entries.
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.
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 separators).
- 1. Prisoner name (last, first, middle).
- 2. DoD Identification number or Social security number (last 4 only).
- 3. Correctional facility.
- Section 1 - Restoration/Return to duty. Press space bar to mark X in first box if requests restoration/return, or second box if does not request.
- Section 2 - Clemency. 6. Mark X if waiving right to be considered for clemency.
- 7. I hereby request to be considered for clemency in the following form(s): Mark X if reduction in length of sentence.
- Mark X if reduction or remission of forfeitures.
- Mark X if reduction or remission of fine.
- Mark X if substitution of administrative discharge for punitive discharge.
- Mark X if remission of dismissal (officers and cadets only).
- Mark X if mitigation of a Dishonorable Discharge to a Bad Conduct Discharge.
- Mark X if restoration to pay grade.
- Enter pay grade if applicable.
- Mark X if restoration of precedence (officers only).
- 8. My reasons for requesting clemency are as follows:
- 9. Prisoner/supervisee signature.
- 10. Witness signature.
- 11. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 12. Certification. a. Certifying official (name, grade and title).
- Signature of certifying official.
- Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Section 3 - Parole. 13. Under regulation I become eligible for parole consideration on: (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 14. Mark X in first box if desire, or second box if do not desire, to be considered for parole.
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.
Fill top to bottom. Identification, then substance, then certification — lower fields commonly derive from the header, and completing out of order produces internal contradictions a reviewer will catch.
Complete every field, N/A where an item does not apply, dates exactly as the form prescribes. A DD form crosses service lines, and a convention obvious in one branch is not obvious in the next.
Read the Privacy Act Statement before entering identifiers, not after. Four facts are in it: authority, purpose, routine uses, consequence of declining. Its placement ahead of the data fields is deliberate.
Sign last, in ink or with a credentialed digital signature. A typed name in a signature field certifies nothing. CAC-based signing is the usual electronic method where the receiving system supports it. Date the block immediately — unsigned and undated certifications account for a large share of returns.
Check before submitting. The recurring failures are edition mismatch, gaps in required boxes, unreadable scanned handwriting, wrong date format, and certification without signature or date. 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.
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.
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 2715-3?
- DD Form 2715-3, Prisoner Restoration/Return to Duty, Clemency and Parole Statement, 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?