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DD Form 2787 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2787, Certificate of Warehousemen's Legal Liability Insurance, September 1998., used to Certificate of Warehouseman's Legal Liability Insurance. 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.
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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.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 1 pages, approximately 21 entries. Pick on the basis of how you will complete it.
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.
Nothing costs anything here. Work in a full desktop pdf application rather than a browser preview; field behaviour in browsers is unreliable.
What the form asks for
- 5.a.(1) Address of warehouse, line 1.
- 5.b.(1) Limit of liability.
- 5.a.(2) Address of warehouse, line 2.
- 5.b.(2) Limit of liability.
- 5.a.(3) Address of warehouse, line 3.
- 5.b.(3) Limit of liability.
- Deductible amount.
- 1. Insurance company. a. Name.
- 1.b. Address (number, street, city, state, zip code).
- 2. Contractor. a. Name.
- 2.b. Address (number, street, city, state, and zip code).
- 3. Policy number.
- 4. Effective date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day) (12:01 A. M. Standard Time at the place of issuance and continuing until cancelled as provided for in paragraph 5 below).
- The certificate may be cancelled only by giving 30 days notice in writing to:
- 6.b. Address (number, street, city, state and zip code).
- Issuing Office. 6.a. Name of insurance company/underwriter/agent.
- 6.c. Telephone number (Include area code).
- 7.a. Name of authorized insurance company representative.
- b. Signature.
- 7.c. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
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.
Do not read across from a service number. DA numbering is Army-specific under an Army proponent; DD numbering is Department-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. The sequences are unrelated, so identical digits in each identify two different documents. Read the prefix, not the digits.
Revision follows directive changes, changed data requirements and amended notice language, unannounced. Verify not stated each time rather than trusting a saved copy — the cost of the check is seconds.
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 2787?
- DD Form 2787, Certificate of Warehousemen's Legal Liability Insurance, 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?