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Treat DD Form 2717 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2717, DoD Voluntary/Involuntary Appellate Leave Action, March 2013. Function: Department of Defense Voluntary/Involuntary Appellate Leave Action. 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.
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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Available: PDF, across 3 pages, roughly 31 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
Take the fillable pdf unless you have a reason not to. Fillable means the boxes are real fields that accept typed text and retain it in the file. Printable means a flat blank — no fields, printer and pen only. The difference is not cosmetic: one produces a record that reproduces cleanly through scanning and forwarding, the other depends on penmanship.
What the form asks for
- Section 1 - action memorandum. 1. To (inmate).
- 2. From (correctional facility).
- 3.a. Type of court martial.
- b. Date adjudged (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- c. Date court-martial approved by convening authority (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- d. Sentence.
- 4. You have accrued ordinary leave in the amount of (number of days).
- 6. Your request/mandatory appellate leave begins on (date).
- 21. If you have any further questions regarding your release on appellate leave, please contact:
- at DSN:
- or commercial (phone number).
- All correspondence shall be addressed to:
- You were briefed by (name, grade, title).
- Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Signature.
- Section 2 - inmate endorsement. 1. To (Correctional facility - street, city, state and zip code).
- 2. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 3. I understand that I have accrued ordinary leave in the amount of (days).
- I have previously sold (days).
- and am entitled to sell a total of (days).
- Initial if electing to: a. Receive pay and allowances during the period of accured leave and then continue in unpaid appellate leave status; or
- Initial if electing to: b. Receive payment for the accrued leave, as of the day before the appellate leave begins, and then serve the entire period of appellate leave in unpaid leave status; or
- Initial if electing to: c. a combination of both a. and b. above.
- Receive pay and allowances for (days).
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.
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.
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.
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 2717?
- DD Form 2717, DoD Voluntary/Involuntary Appellate Leave Action, 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?