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Defense Department form, series DD, number 1386. Full title: DD Form 1386, Ocean Cargo Manifest Recapitulation or Summary, April 2006. Function: Ocean Cargo Manifest Recapitulation or Summary. 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.
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.
Formats offered: PDF. Length: 1 pages. Fillable field count: roughly 171.
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.
An xfdl file is provided as well. Xfdl is the IBM Lotus Forms format, historically standard across Defense form distribution, and it requires IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or an equivalent reader; ordinary pdf software will not open it.
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
- Press space bar to mark X in first box if Recapitulation (line 8 and 9a applicable), or second box if Summary (line 8 and 9b applicable).
- Mark X in first box if original, second box if revised.
- 1. Vessel name.
- 2. Status.
- 3. Voyage document number.
- 4. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no separators).
- 5. Loading port.
- 6. Heavy lifts.
- 7. Outsize dimension.
- Page number.
- Number of pages.
- 8. Description and location of heavy lifts and other special data. Lines a and b (both Recapitulation and Summary): (1) destination port, line 1 of 11.
- (2) If line a (Recapitulation), Description. If line b (summary), commodity category.
- (3) If line a (recapitulation), length-width-height. If line b (summary), for MSC use only.
- (4) If line a: self-sustaining?
- (5) If line a: non-self-sustaining?
- (6) Vessel (line a only).
- (7) Cargo (line a only).
- If line a (recapitulation): (8) Stow location. If line b (summary): (4) Transportation code.
- If line a (recapitulation): (9) Long tons. If line b (summary): (5) On deck.
- 9. Total cargo loaded. (1) If line a (recapitulation): Destination port. If line b (Summary): Number of units - privately owned vehicles, mail or other.
- 9.(2) Service (line a only).
- 9.(3) Long tons (line a only).
- 9.(4) Measurement tons (line a and b).
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.
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.
Once executed, routing follows not stated and the submitting organization's own instruction. Keeping a copy is standard.
Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 1386 is normally found by its number alone, without regard to service.
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.
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 1386?
- DD Form 1386, Ocean Cargo Manifest Recapitulation or Summary, April 2006
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?