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Department of Defense form 1335. Official designation: DD Form 1335, Field Inspection Data - USA, USAX, USNX, DODX Rail Cars, February 1974. Purpose: Inspection Report For Railway Cars. 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.
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 119 entry fields.
The xfdl release corresponds to IBM Lotus Forms. This format carried Department-wide form distribution for years and opens only in IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible client, not in a pdf reader.
Free download applies to every format listed. Any current pdf reader opens the pdf files, though field behaviour is most reliable in a full desktop reader rather than a browser preview.
What the form asks for
- Name of inspector.
- Shop.
- Class.
- Inspection location.
- Date.
- Car number.
- Test: Tank.
- Valve test.
- Tank pressure.
- Valve pressure.
- Gallons.
- LWT.
- LDMT.
- Air date.
- Journal pads.
- Type.
- Date built.
- Date last inspected.
- ACI. Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- Items and condition: Tank shell leaking. X first column if satisfactory, second column if repair, third column if renew.
- Remarks. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- Slabbing: X if metal.
- X if wood.
- Slabbing. X first column if satisfactory, second column if repair, third column if renew.
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.
Guidance for specific entries sits on the form face and in not stated; the directive is authoritative where the two do not agree.
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.
Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 1335 is normally found by its number alone, without regard to service.
Where a DA form is cited alongside a DD form, the two belong to different systems: DA numbering is Army-specific and administered by an Army proponent, while DD numbering is Defense-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. Numbers do not translate between the systems.
Revision occurs when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when statutory notice language is amended. Verification of the edition date at download addresses all three.
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 1335?
- DD Form 1335, Field Inspection Data - USA, USAX, USNX, DODX Rail Cars, February 1974
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?