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Defense Department form, series DD, number 1610. Full title: DD Form 1610, Request and Authorization for TDY Travel of DoD Personnel, May 2003`. Function: Request and Authorization for TDY Travel of DoD Personnel. Edition in force: not stated. Publisher 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.
Submission follows the schedule set by not stated and by local implementing procedures. This page provides the blank form for download and general orientation only.
The download set covers PDF. Document length is 2 pages with about 46 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.
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
- 3. Social security number of requestor. Include dashes.
- 1. Date of request (four digit year, two digit month, two digit day).
- Request for Official Travel. 2. Name of requestor (last, first, middle initial)
- 5. Location of permanent duty station.
- 6. Organizational element.
- 7. Duty telephone number. Include area code.
- 8. Type of authorization.
- 9. T.D.Y. purpose. See JTR, appendix H.
- 10.a. Approximate number of T.D.Y. days including travel time.
- 10.b. Proceed date. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 11. Travel itinerary.
- Press space bar to mark X if variation from itinerary is authorized.
- 12. Transportation mode. a. Commercial. Mark X if by rail.
- Mark X if by air.
- Mark X if by bus.
- Mark X if by ship.
- b. Government travel. Mark X if by air.
- Mark X if by government vehicle.
- Mark X if by ship.
- c. Local transportation. Mark X if by rental car.
- Mark X if by taxi.
- Mark X if other local transportation.
- If local transportation is by privately owned conveyance, enter rate per mile.
- Privately owned conveyance. X first box if advantageous to the government, second if reimbursement is limited to cost of common carrier transportation and per diem.
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.
Instructions printed on the form or in not stated govern individual field entries. Where the two differ, the governing publication controls.
The completed document moves to the office named in not stated or in local guidance. A retained copy is conventional practice.
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 1610?
- DD Form 1610, Request and Authorization for TDY Travel of DoD Personnel, May 2003`
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?