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Treat DD Form 567 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 567, Record of Search and Recovery, August 2015. Function: Record of Search and Recovery. 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.
Authority: not stated prescribes it, not stated maintains it. Those two names settle most disputes about why the form is being asked for. Local commands add timing on top; the requirement itself comes from above them.
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: 1 pages, about 62 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.
Xfdl needs IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible client — a pdf reader will not open it. The format was the Defense standard for electronic forms across the Department for years, which is why it persists in DD distribution long after most users moved to pdf.
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. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 2. Decedent. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- c. Social security or DoD ID number.
- d. Organization.
- 3. Type of search.
- 4. Date of mission (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 5. Search and recovery number.
- 6. Date of recovery (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 8. Place of recovery.
- 9. Identification media found in grave and or surrounding area, include serial numbers found on vehicles, tanks, aircraft and weapons.
- 12. Team Leader. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- c. Organization.
- e. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 13. Receiving official. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- c. Organization.
- e. Date Signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- b. Grade.
- 7. CBRNE statement attached: X first box if yes, second if no.
- 10. Other remains recovered on this mission. Use continuation sheet if necessary. a. Search and recovery number, line 1.
- Search and recovery number, line 4.
- Search and recovery number, line 5.
- Search and recovery number, line 6.
- Search and recovery number, line 7.
- Search and recovery number, line 8.
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.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
Send it as not stated or local guidance specifies. Save a copy. Cross-service and cross-agency routing is normal for Department forms, and a lost original outside your own organization is harder to chase down.
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.
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.
This page publishes a Defense document and explains its contents. It does not advise, does not rule on applicability, and determines nothing about how a completed form will be treated. Direct such questions to not stated, to the servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 567?
- DD Form 567, Record of Search and Recovery, August 2015
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?