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Department of Defense form 1208. Official designation: DD Form 1208, Specific-Gravity Tests, December 1999. Purpose: Specific Gravity Tests. Current edition not stated, status not stated.
Prescribing authority: not stated. Proponent: not stated. Unlike service-specific publications, DD forms carry Department-level authority and apply across the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force and Coast Guard when operating under Defense jurisdiction.
Users include uniformed members of any branch, DoD civilian employees, contractor personnel where authorized, and the administrative staff who process the completed record.
Timing of submission is fixed by not stated and by the implementing guidance of the submitting organization. What follows describes the blank document, not agency procedure.
The download set covers PDF. Document length is 1 pages with about 87 entry fields.
The pdf is the primary distribution format. A fillable pdf accepts typed entries in defined field boxes and stores them in the file; a printable pdf is a flat image of the blank, meant for pen entry after printing. The distinction matters for legibility and for records that pass between offices.
What the form asks for
- 1. Project.
- 2. Date.
- 3. Boring number.
- 4. Job number.
- 5. Excavation number.
- 6. Specific gravity of solids. Flask calibration data. a. Flask number.
- b. Clean, dry weight (grams).
- c. Flask plus water weight (grams).
- d. Observed temperature (degrees Celsius).
- Determination data. f. Dish number, column 1.
- Dish number, column 2.
- Dish number, column 3.
- g. Weight of dish + dry soil (grams), column 2.
- g. Weight of dish + dry soil (grams), column 3.
- h. Weight of dish (grams), column 2.
- h. Weight of dish (grams), column 3.
- h. Weight of dish (grams), column 1.
- i. Weight of dry soil (Ws) (grams), column 2.
- i. Weight of dry soil (Ws) (grams), column 3.
- i. Weight of dry soil (Ws) (grams), column 1.
- j. Weight of flask + water + immersed soil (Wbws) (grams), column 2.
- j. Weight of flask + water + immersed soil (Wbws) (grams), column 3.
- k. Temperature of water (Tx) (degrees Celsius), column 2.
- k. Temperature of water (Tx) (degrees Celsius), column 1.
Completion runs in the order printed on the page: identifying data at the head, the body of the entry next, certification at the foot. Header data frequently governs what belongs in the fields below it.
Edition in use: not stated. Because DD forms are revised at Department level and distributed to all services at once, an obsolete printing may not match the fields an office expects. The date is printed on the form face.
Field-level instructions appear on the form itself and in not stated. The directive is the controlling text.
The completed document moves to the office named in not stated or in local guidance. A retained copy is conventional practice.
Associated forms are traced by number within the series. Because the DD sequence is common to all military departments, no service qualifier is needed to identify a referenced form.
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.
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Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1208?
- DD Form 1208, Specific-Gravity Tests, 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?