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Department of Defense form 1843. Official designation: DD Form 1843, Demand on Carrier/Contractor, May 2000. Purpose: Demand on Carrier/Contractor. Current edition not stated, status not stated.
Governing directive: not stated. Responsible office: not stated. The DD designation signals joint scope — all military departments, combatant commands and defense agencies draw on a single edition of the document.
Common users: service members regardless of branch, Defense civilian staff, and the offices that file, verify or retain the finished document.
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: 1 pages. Fillable field count: roughly 40.
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.
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
- 1. To carrier/contractor. a. Company name and complete address (include zip code).
- c. Government Bill of Lading Number.
- d. M A C/Airway Bill Number.
- e. Contract number.
- b. Amount of government claim.
- 2. To nontemporary storage (NTS) warehouseman. a. Company name and complete address (include zip code).
- b. Amount of government claim.
- c. Dates in temporary storage (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers). (1) From.
- (2) To.
- d. Service Order Number.
- e. Lot number.
- 3. Claim presented in conjunction with shipment of: Press space bar to mark X if household goods.
- Mark X if holdbaggage.
- Mark X if other.
- Specify other type of shipment.
- b. Moved to (city and state).
- 5. Shipment packed. a. By (carrier/contractor name).
- 6. Shipment stored. a. By (carrier/contractor name).
- b. Stored from (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- c. To (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 7. Shipment delivered. a. By (carrier/contractor name).
- b. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 8. Enclosures. X if DD Form 1844.
- X if DD Forms 1840 or 1840R.
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.
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.
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 1843?
- DD Form 1843, Demand on Carrier/Contractor, May 2000
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?