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DD Form 462 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 462, Bond of Person Designated to Act on Behalf of Incompetent Member or Former Member of the Uniformed Services, May 2003, used to Bond of Person Designated to Act on Behalf of Incompetent Member or Former Member of the Uniformed Services. 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.
Edition not stated, status not stated. That comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
The set is PDF. Size: 1 pages, about 28 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.
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
- Of (enter street address).
- In witness thereof, the parties hereto have executed this instrument under their several seals this day of (enter day).
- Enter month.
- (enter year), the name and corporate seal of the corporate surety being hereto affixed.
- Individual principal (seal).
- Street address.
- Street number.
- City.
- Attest:
- Street number.
- City.
- State.
- By (affix corporate seal).
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- Know all men by these presents that we (enter names).
- Enter additional names if necessary.
- In the country of (enter country).
- State.
- As principal and (enter as appropriate).
- As principal and as surety (enter additional data).
- for the use and benefit of (enter name), an incompetent,
- in the penal sum of (enter number of dollars), for the payment of which sum well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, administrators, and successors, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.
- The condition of this obligation is such, that the Secretary of Defense designated the principal to receive from the Government any active duty pay and allowances, or any amounts due for accumulated or accrued leave, or any retired or retainer pay, otherwise payable to (enter name), a mentally incompetent member of the uniformed services.
- In presence of (enter name of witness).
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.
For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
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.
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.
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.
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 462?
- DD Form 462, Bond of Person Designated to Act on Behalf of Incompetent Member or Former Member of the Uniformed Services, May 2003
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?