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Treat DD Form 2949 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2949, Joint Inspector General Action Request, September 2011. Function: Joint Inspector General Action 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.
The set is PDF. Size: 1 pages, about 25 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
- 1. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. Grade/rank.
- 3. Social security number (optional).
- 4. Status. X first box if military, second if civilian.
- If military: X first box if Air Force, second if Army, third if Navy, fourth if Marine Corps, fifth if Coast Guard.
- X first box if Active Duty, second if Reserve, third if National Guard, fourth if other.
- If other, specify.
- If civilian: X first box if appropriated fund, second if nonappropriated fund.
- X if contractor.
- X if foreign or local national.
- X if other.
- If other, specify.
- 5. Unit identification code/organization address.
- 7. Contact telephone numbers (include area code/DSN). a. Duty.
- b. Home.
- c. Cell.
- 6. Preferred mailing address (if different).
- 8. E-mail address(es).
- 9. Specific action requested (what do you want the IG to do for you?).
- 10. Information pertaining to this request (background, list attached documents, others talked with about this matter, etc.).
- 11. Statement. X first box if I do, second box if I do not consent to release my personal information inside official channels.
- a. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- b. Signature.
- 12. IG/Case number (assigned by Joint IG).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 2949?
- DD Form 2949, Joint Inspector General Action Request, September 2011
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?