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DD Form 372 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 372, Request for Verification of Birth, November 2012, used to Request for Verification of Birth. 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.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
Formats: PDF. Length 1 pages, approximately 29 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.
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.
Free download, every format. Do not fill the form in a browser tab — browser pdf viewers handle interactive fields inconsistently and discard entries on close.
What the form asks for
- 1. Date of request. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day, no spacers.
- Section 1 (Fill in every item in this section). 2. Full name of child at time of birth. Last name, first name, middle names.
- 3. Sex. Press space bar to mark X in first box if male, second box if female.
- 4. Date of birth. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 5. Place of birth. a. City.
- b. county.
- c. State.
- 6. Full name of father: last, first, middle names.
- 7. Full name of mother: last, first, middle names.
- 8. Recruiting officer/representative making request. a. Name: last, first, middle initial.
- b. Rank/Grade.
- c. Title.
- OMB expires November 30, 2015.
- d. Signature.
- Section 2 (for use by Vital Statistics Department only). 9. Corrections of above statement made according to facts on file by. a. Name: last, first, middle initial.
- b. Organization.
- Organization address: c. Street.
- d. City.
- e. State.
- f. Zip code.
- 10. Certificate number.
- 11. File date of certificate. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 12. Verified by (signature).
- 13. Date signed. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
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.
Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
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.
Three drivers of revision: directive reissue, altered collection requirements, updated statutory notice text. No notification accompanies any of them, so download fresh and confirm not stated rather than reusing an archived file.
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 372?
- DD Form 372, Request for Verification of Birth, November 2012
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?