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Department of Defense form 1206. Official designation: DD Form 1206, Grain-Size Analysis (Sieve Method), December 1999. Purpose: Grain-Size Analysis (Sieve Method). 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.
Users include uniformed members of any branch, DoD civilian employees, contractor personnel where authorized, and the administrative staff who process the completed record.
Submission follows the schedule set by not stated and by local implementing procedures. This page provides the blank form for download and general orientation only.
The download set covers PDF. Document length is 1 pages with about 113 entry fields.
Xfdl is present in the set. The format belongs to IBM Lotus Forms — long the Defense standard for electronic forms — and needs the matching viewer; pdf applications will report the file as unreadable.
Every listed format is free to download. Modern pdf software handles the pdf files, with the caveat that browser-embedded viewers sometimes ignore field properties that a desktop reader honours.
What the form asks for
- 1. Project.
- 2. Date.
- 3. Job number.
- 4. Excavation.
- 5. Date completed.
- 6. Notes about sample/description.
- 7. Sample number.
- 8. Original sample weight.
- 9. Prewashed? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 10. Plus #200 sample weight, washed.
- 11. Minus #200 sample weight, washed.
- 12. Sieve size.
- 13. Sieve weight.
- 14. Sieve-sample weight.
- 15. Weight retained.
- 16. Cumulative weight retained.
- 17. Percent retained.
- 18. Percent passing.
- 19. Total weight retained in sieves (sum of column 15).
- 20. Weight sieved through #200 (weight in pan).
- 22. Total weight passing #200 sieve (20 + 11).
- 24. Error (8 - 23).
- 25. Error in percentage (24/8 X 100).
- 21. Washing loss (8 - (10 + 11))
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.
The current edition is not stated. Superseded editions of DD forms are frequently rejected at the receiving office, since Department-wide forms change centrally and older layouts lose their field correspondence. Edition date appears in the lower corner of the printed blank.
Instructions printed on the form or in not stated govern individual field entries. Where the two differ, the governing publication controls.
After completion, the copy goes to the office designated by not stated or by local procedure. Retention of a personal copy is ordinary practice and costs nothing.
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.
Some procedures pair a DD form with a service form. The two numbering systems are separate — service forms answer to a service proponent, DD forms to not stated or another Department office — and a matching number in each system means nothing.
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.
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Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1206?
- DD Form 1206, Grain-Size Analysis (Sieve Method), December 1999
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?