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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 458 — DD Form 458, Charge Sheet, May 2000 — exists to Charge Sheet, 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.
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.
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.
The set is PDF. Size: 2 pages, about 66 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
Take the fillable pdf unless you have a reason not to. Fillable means the boxes are real fields that accept typed text and retain it in the file. Printable means a flat blank — no fields, printer and pen only. The difference is not cosmetic: one produces a record that reproduces cleanly through scanning and forwarding, the other depends on penmanship.
Skip xfdl unless the viewer is already installed. It is the IBM Lotus Forms format, adopted Department-wide for electronic forms and still present in the set for that reason; ordinary pdf software reports it as unreadable.
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
- of: enter authority
- Section 2. Charges and specifications. 10. Enter specific charge.
- Violation of the U C M J, Article:
- Subject to the following instructions. See R C M 601 e, or if none, so state.
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- Section 1 - Personal data. 1. Name of accused: last, first, middle initial.
- 2. Social security number, do not include dashes.
- 3. Grade or rank.
- 4. Pay grade.
- 5. Unit or organization.
- 6. Current service. a. Initial date.
- 6.b. Term of current service.
- 7. Pay per month. a. Basic pay.
- 7.b. Sea or foreign duty pay per month.
- 7.c. Total pay per month.
- 8. Nature of restraint of accused.
- 9. Date restraint imposed.
- Enter specification.
- Section 3. Preferral. 11.a. Name of accuser: last, first, middle initial.
- 11.b. Grade.
- 11.c. Organization of accuser.
- 11.d. Signature of accuser.
- 11.e. Date signed. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- Affidavit: Before me, the undersigned, authorized by law to administer oath in cases of this character, personally appeared the above named accuser this: enter day
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.
For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
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.
Prefix before number. A DA citation and a DD citation in the same instruction point at separate systems — one Army, administered by an Army proponent, one Department-wide under not stated — and there is no correspondence between them at any number.
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 458?
- DD Form 458, Charge Sheet, May 2000
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?