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Defense Department form, series DD, number 1299. Full title: DD 1299, Application for Shipment and/or Storage of Personal Property, September 1998. Function: Application for Shipment and/or Storage of Personal Property. Edition in force: not stated. Publisher 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.
Common users: service members regardless of branch, Defense civilian staff, and the offices that file, verify or retain the finished document.
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.
Formats offered: PDF. Length: 2 pages. Fillable field count: roughly 61.
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.
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.
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. Date prepared (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 2. Shipment number.
- 3. Name of preparing office.
- 4. To (Responsible Origin Personal Property Shipping Office). a. Name.
- b. Address (Street, Suite Number, City, State, ZIP Code).
- 5. Name of destination personal property shipping office.
- 6. Member or employee information. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Rank/grade.
- c. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- d. Agency.
- 7. Request action be taken to transport or store the following: a. Household goods/unaccompanied baggage/items/no. of containers (quantity estimate): (1) Pounds.
- (2) Pounds of professional books, papers and equipment (or "none" if not applicable).
- (3) Expensive and valuable items (number of cartons).
- b. Mobile home information. (1) Serial number.
- (2) Length (dimensions in feet and inches).
- (3) Width (dimensions in feet and inches).
- (4) Height (dimensions in feet and inches).
- (5) Type expando (describe).
- c. Mobile home services requested. X if contents packed.
- X if mobile home blocked.
- X if mobile home unblocked.
- X if stored at origin.
- X if stored at destination.
- 8. This shipment/storage is required incident to the following change of station orders: a. Type of orders. X first box if permanent, second box if temporary.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Editions change because the underlying directive changes, because collection requirements are revised, or because Privacy Act language is updated. Checking the edition date at the point of download is the practical response.
Scope of this page: distribution of a published form and description of its contents. It offers no legal guidance and no assurance regarding any particular submission. Direct procedural questions to not stated, to the servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1299?
- DD 1299, Application for Shipment and/or Storage of Personal Property, September 1998
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?