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DD Form 1503 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD Form 1503, Message Correction Notice (JANAP 128), February 1979.. Stated purpose: Message Correction Notice. Edition date 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.
Common users: service members regardless of branch, Defense civilian staff, and the offices that file, verify or retain the finished document.
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 72 entry fields.
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.
What the form asks for
- Date.
- To.
- From.
- Press space bar to mark X if attached message has been transmitted with discrepancies noted below, or second box if cannot be transmitted until discrepancies have been corrected.
- Mark X If General Is Precedence omitted, incorrectly entered, or invalid.
- Mark X If General Is Classification indicated cannot be transmitted
- Mark X If Classification indicated cannot be transmitted is By this station
- Mark X If Classification indicated cannot be transmitted Is To the Address
- Mark X If General Is Classification omitted or incorrectly entered.
- Mark X If General Is Addressee unidentifiable or invalid.
- Mark X If General Is Downgrading/declassification instructions omitted.
- Mark X If General Is Other
- Specify any other general discrepancy.
- Mark X If NARRATIVE (MANUAL AND O C R PROCESSING) is Unauthorized plain language address.
- Mark X If NARRATIVE (MANUAL AND OCR PROCESSING) is Unauthorized or invalid characters in heading or text
- Mark X If NARRATIVE (MANUAL AND OCR PROCESSING) is Heading/text single spaced.
- Mark X If NARRATIVE (MANUAL AND OCR PROCESSING) is Lower case letters.
- Mark X If NARRATIVE (MANUAL AND OCR PROCESSING) is More than 69 characters per line.
- Mark X If NARRATIVE (MANUAL AND OCR PROCESSING) is Message incomplete.
- Mark X If NARRATIVE (MANUAL AND OCR PROCESSING) is Corrections not initialed.
- Mark X If NARRATIVE (MANUAL AND OCR PROCESSING) is "MINIMIZE CONSIDERED" omitted.
- Mark X If NARRATIVE (MANUAL AND OCR PROCESSING) is Releasers signature omitted.
- Mark X If NARRATIVE (MANUAL AND OCR PROCESSING) is Page number block omitted or incorrectly entered.
- Mark X If NARRATIVE (MANUAL AND OCR PROCESSING) is Date-time group block omitted or incorrectly entered.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 1503?
- DD Form 1503, Message Correction Notice (JANAP 128), February 1979.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?