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DD Form 1553 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD Form 1553, Entry for a Photography Contest, August 1983.. Stated purpose: Entry for a Photography Contest. 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.
Users include uniformed members of any branch, DoD civilian employees, contractor personnel where authorized, and the administrative staff who process the completed record.
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 27.
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.
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
- Armed service. Press space bar to mark X in first box if Army, second box if Navy, third box if Air Force.
- Military address (organization, unit, installation, base, ship, state, country, P O, A P O, etc.) (include zip code).
- Area code of home telephone number.
- Remaining numbers of home telephone number.
- Duty phone: commercial area code.
- Remaining numbers of commercial duty phone number.
- Permanent home address (include zip code). (If release from service is anticipated before December 31 of the contest year, give approximate date and mailing address).
- Section 1, Contestant information and authorization. Title of entry.
- Name of contestant (last, first, middle initial).
- Rank (by name, for example, Staff Sergeant).
- Social security number.
- Duty phone: DSN.
- Categories of competition. a. Mark X if military life.
- b. Mark X if people.
- c. Mark X if scenic/nature.
- d. Mark X if creative effects.
- Type of entry (group). 1. Mark X if Monochrome print.
- Mark X if Group 2, color print.
- Mark X if group 3, color transparency.
- Signature of contestant.
- Date (year, month, day).
- Signature of model.
- Address (street, city, state and zip code). (or "NA" if not applicable).
- Date (year, month, day).
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.
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.
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.
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 1553?
- DD Form 1553, Entry for a Photography Contest, August 1983.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?