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Department of Defense form 1626. Official designation: DD Form 1626, Veterinary Necropsy Report Checklist and Guidelines, October 2001.. Purpose: Veterinary Necropsy Report. 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.
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.
Available formats: PDF. The form runs 12 pages and contains approximately 132 fillable fields.
Pdf serves as the base format. In the fillable variant, each box is an interactive field that holds typed text inside the document. In the flat printable variant, no fields exist — the page prints as a blank to be completed by hand. Typed entries survive transmission; handwriting does not always survive scanning.
What the form asks for
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- Left thyroid (grams).
- Right thyroid (grams).
- Left adrenal (grams).
- Right adrenal (grams).
- Adrenal glands.
- Pituitary gland.
- Left kidney (grams).
- Right kidney (grams).
- Urinary system.
- Heart weight (grams).
- Heart.
- Right lung (grams).
- Left lung (grams).
- Liver weight (grams).
- Liver.
- Pancreas.
- Spleen.
- 1. Contributor/prosector.
- 2. Date of report (4 digit year, 3 letter month, 2 digit day).
- 3. Name and address of reporting unit.
- 4. Geographic location (country).
- 5. Telephone number.
- 6. Fax number.
Order of completion: identification block first, substantive entries second, certification and signature last. The blank is laid out in that sequence and the sequence is not arbitrary — later entries often depend on data established in the header.
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.
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.
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 1626?
- DD Form 1626, Veterinary Necropsy Report Checklist and Guidelines, October 2001.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?