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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2812 — DD Form 2812, Commander's Preliminary Assessment and Recommendation Regarding Missing Person, November 1999. — exists to Commander's Preliminary Assessment and Recommendation Regarding Missing Person, 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.
Formats: PDF. Length 1 pages, approximately 17 entries.
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
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- Section 2 - Assessment of Circumstances. 8. Assess the circumstances of the loss and describe why you believe the person is missing (Provide additional rationale and any other information pertinent to this assessment as attachments.) See attachments: enter first attachment.
- Through: last attachment.
- Section 1 - Identity of missing person. 1. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 3. Rank/grade/civilian.
- 4. Date information received regarding missing person's loss (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 5. Theater in which serving at time of loss.
- 6. Branch of armed service to which assigned, detailed, or attached.
- 7. Unit, facility, or area to or in which the person is assigned.
- 8. Assessment of circumstances of the loss.
- Section 3 - Recommendation. 9. Commander of unit, facility or area to or in which the missing person is assigned. a. Typed name (Last, First, Middle Initial).
- 9.b. Grade.
- 9.c. Unit.
- 9.d. Signature.
- 9.e. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 2812?
- DD Form 2812, Commander's Preliminary Assessment and Recommendation Regarding Missing Person, November 1999.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?