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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 844 — DD Form 844, Requisition for Local Duplicating Service, February 1989 — exists to Requisition For< Local Duplicating Service, 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.
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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Formats: PDF. Length 1 pages, approximately 42 entries.
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 (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day)
- 3. Job number.
- Part A. Request (To be completed by requestor) 4. Requesting Office. a. Organization Name.
- b. Building.
- c. Room number.
- 5. Delivery Instructions. a. Deliver to.
- d. For reference consult: (1) Name.
- (2) Telephone number.
- b. Person to call if to be picked up: (1) Name.
- (2) Telephone number.
- 6. Description of job. a. Appropriation chargeable.
- b. Title, form number, etc.
- c. Classification. Press space bar to mark X in first box if classified, second box if unclassified, or third box if other.
- If other, specify.
- d. Number of originals.
- e. Number of copies each.
- f. Disposition of originals. X first box if return, second box if destroy.
- 7. Specifications. a. Type reproduction. X first box if Xerographic, second box if offset, third box if other.
- If other, specify.
- b. Print. X first box if one side, second box if head to head, third box if head to foot, or fourth box if other.
- If other, specify.
- c. Finished size. X first box if 8-1/2 x 11 (letter), or second box if other.
- If other, specify.
- d. Paper. X first box if white, second box if other.
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 Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
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.
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.
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 844?
- DD Form 844, Requisition for Local Duplicating Service, February 1989
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?