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Department of Defense form 108. Official designation: DD Form 108, Application for Retired Pay Benefits, July 2002.. Purpose: Application for Retired Pay Benefits. Current edition not stated, status not stated.
Issued under not stated, with not stated as proponent. A DD number marks a Department-wide instrument: the same blank form serves every military department and the defense agencies, rather than one service alone.
The form reaches military personnel across the services, civilian employees of the Department, and the personnel and records specialists who receive it.
When the form is filed is a matter of not stated and local instruction. The description here covers the document itself and how to obtain a copy.
Available formats: PDF. The form runs 2 pages and contains approximately 200 fillable fields.
Distribution centres on pdf. Two states exist: fillable, where field boxes accept keyboard input and retain it, and printable, a static blank produced for manual completion. Typed data reproduces cleanly across copies; handwritten data depends on the writer.
All formats download free of charge. Pdf files open in any modern reader; interactive fields behave most predictably in a desktop application, less so in browser viewers.
What the form asks for
- 1. To
- 2. Date of Birth
- 3. Date retired pay to begin.
- 4. Highest military pay grade held
- 5. Applicant name: last, first, middle initial
- 6.a. Service number if applicable
- 6.b. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 7. Present home address: street, apartment number, city, state, zip code
- 7.b. home telephone number, area code only
- 7.b. Rest of home telephone number
- 8. Present assignment
- 9. Armed force and component before 1949, line 2
- 10. Grade or rating, line 2
- 11. a. approximate date of service from: day, line 2
- 11. a. approximate date of service from: month, line 2
- 11. a. approximate date of service from: year, line 2
- 11. b. approximate date of service to: day, line 2
- 11. b. approximate date of service to: month, line 2
- 11. b. approximate date of service to: year, line 2
- 12. a. active duty service from: day, line 2
- 12. a. active duty service from: month, line 2
- 12. a. active duty service from: year, line 2
- 12.b. active duty service to: day, line 2
- 12.b. active duty service to: month, line 2
The document is filled from the top down. Identification precedes substance, substance precedes certification. Fields lower on the page are commonly keyed to entries made above them.
Verify the edition date against not stated before entry. Department-level revisions replace the blank across every service simultaneously, so an old copy in a desk drawer may no longer correspond to current field numbering.
Field-level instructions appear on the form itself and in not stated. The directive is the controlling text.
Once executed, routing follows not stated and the submitting organization's own instruction. Keeping a copy is standard.
Cross-referenced forms are found through the numbering system. The DD sequence is Department-level and unified, which means a number cited on the page identifies one document across the whole Department.
A DD number and a DA number may appear in the same instruction without being related. DA forms belong to the Army alone; DD forms belong to the Department and are administered at Department level. The sequences are independent.
Forms are reissued for several reasons: directive revision, changed data requirements, updated notice language. Confirming not stated at the moment of download covers the risk.
This page distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. It is not a source of legal advice and makes no representation about acceptance of any completed form. Questions of applicability, eligibility or procedure belong to not stated, the servicing personnel office, or the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 108?
- DD Form 108, Application for Retired Pay Benefits, July 2002.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?