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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2776 — DD Form 2776, Dangerous Cargo Load List, September 1998 — exists to Dangerous Cargo Load List, 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.
Current edition is not stated, carried as not stated. Check that against any copy you already hold before doing anything else — Department-level revisions land everywhere simultaneously, so a stale file is stale across the whole Department.
The set is PDF. Size: 1 pages, about 75 fields.
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
- 2. Page number.
- Total number of pages.
- 10. Prepared in accordance with: Press space bar to mark X if 49 CFR.
- X if IMDGC.
- 3. From. a. Agency name.
- 3.b. Agency address (Include zip code).
- 4. Vessel. a. Name.
- b. Number.
- c. Registry.
- d. IRCS.
- 5. Voyage number.
- 6. Van number.
- 7. Total net explosive weight in kilograms and/or pounds.
- 8. Port of entry.
- 9. Port of destination.
- 11. Transportation control number, line 2.
- 12. Stow location.
- 13. Proper shipping name (R Q, Waste, Marine Pollutant if applicable).
- 14. Hazard class.
- 15. UN number.
- 16. Package group.
- 17. Type pack.
- 18. Pieces.
- 19. Weight: kilograms (pounds).
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.
For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
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.
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.
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 2776?
- DD Form 2776, Dangerous Cargo Load List, September 1998
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?