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Treat DD Form 2834 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2834, Veterinary Consultation Request, September 2002.. Function: Veterinary Consultation Request. 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.
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.
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 2 pages, roughly 37 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
Default to fillable pdf, print only when you must. The fillable file stores what you type; the printable file is a blank picture. A Department form often travels further than a service form — scanned, emailed, forwarded to an agency that never saw the original — and typed text is what survives that.
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.
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
- 1. Press space bar to mark X if tissue in doctor's office (AFIP use only)
- 2. Owner's last name.
- 3. Animal name and/or tattoo number.
- 4. Previous AFIP case number on animal, if applicable.
- 5. Common name (dog, bird, rat, etc.).
- 6. Date of birth. Last three digits of year, three letter month, three digit day, no dividers.
- 7. Age.
- 8. Sex.
- 9. Neutered? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 10. Breed/type/strain (Beagle, Canary, etc.).
- 11. Genus and species (scientific name).
- 12. Materials forwarded (x or complete as applicable). Mark X if clinical information (required).
- Mark X if surgical pathology report (required).
- Mark X if autopsy report (required).
- Mark X if photos, clinical/gross.
- Mark X if X-rays.
- Enter quantity of slides (required).
- Enter quantity of blocks.
- Mark X if wet tissue.
- Mark X if other.
- Specify other materials forwarded.
- 13. Contributor's case identification. a. Surgical pathology accession number(s).
- 13.b. Autopsy/necropsy accession number.
- c. Euthanized? X first box if yes, second box if no.
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.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
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.
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.
Where a procedure cites both a service form and a DD form, the two are unconnected. Service numbering answers to a service proponent, DD numbering to not stated or another Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Matching numbers mean nothing whatever.
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 2834?
- DD Form 2834, Veterinary Consultation Request, September 2002.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?