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DD Form 2720 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2720, Annual Correctional Report, March 2013, used to Annual Correction Report. 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.
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 8 pages, roughly 200 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.
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
- 1. This report is due to: (enter agency) by 16 February annually.
- 2. Branch of service reporting.
- 3. Report date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 5. Reporting year.
- 6. Point of contact. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Commercial telephone number (include area code).
- c. DSN telephone number.
- 7. Facilities and capacities of reporting service. a. CONUS. (1) Correctional facilities (level I). (i) Number of facilities.
- (ii) Total design capacity.
- (iii) Total operational capacity.
- Head count on 31 December reporting year. (iv) Pre-trial.
- (v) Post-trial.
- (vi) Total.
- 7.a.(2) Regional correctional facilities (level II). (i) Number of facilities.
- (ii) Total design capacity.
- (iii) Total operational capacity.
- Head count on 31 December reporting year. (iv) Pre-trial.
- (v) Post-trial.
- (vi) Total.
- 7.a.(3) Long term correctional facilities (level III). (i) Number of facilities.
- (ii) Total design capacity.
- (iii) Total operational capacity.
- Head count on 31 December reporting year. (iv) Pre-trial.
- (v) Post-trial.
Verify the edition before the first keystroke. The date on the form face should read not stated. If it does not, discard the file. Field numbering shifts between editions, and on a DD form the new layout reaches every receiving office in every service at once — there is no lag during which the old version is still normal somewhere.
Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
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 2720?
- DD Form 2720, Annual Correctional 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?