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DD Form 1870 — DD Form 1870, Nomination for Appointment to the United States Service Academy, September 2005

Nomination for Appointment to the United States Military Academy, US Naval Academy, US Air Force Academy

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Department of Defense form 1870. Official designation: DD Form 1870, Nomination for Appointment to the United States Service Academy, September 2005. Purpose: Nomination for Appointment to the United States Military Academy, US Naval Academy, US Air Force Academy. 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.

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.

Available formats: PDF. The form runs 1 pages and contains approximately 27 fillable 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

  • Nomination for Appointment to: Press space bar to mark X in first box if U.S. Military Academy, second box if U.S. Naval Academy, third box if U.S. Air Force Academy.
  • 1. Name of nominee (last, first, middle initial).
  • 2. Date of birth (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no separators).
  • 3. Social Security Number. Do not include dashes.
  • 4. Domicile in constituency. a. Street (include apartment number).
  • 4.b. City.
  • 4.c. County.
  • 4.d. State.
  • 4.e. Zip code (9 digit).
  • 5. Temporary address. a. Street (include apartment number).
  • 5.b. City.
  • 5.c. County.
  • 5.d. State.
  • 5.e. Zip code (9 digit).
  • 6. Sex. Mark X in first box if male, second box if female.
  • 7. Telephone number (include area code).
  • 8. Congressional district and/or state.
  • 9. Type of nomination. a. Vacancy. Mark X in order for first, second, third, fourth, or fifth.
  • 9.b. Type of nomination. Mark X in first box if principal, second box if competitive, third box if alternate, and fourth box if competitive alternate.
  • Alternate number (enter 1 through 9 if applicable).
  • If alternate, enter name of principal nominee.
  • If competitive alternate, enter name of principal nominee.
  • 10. Remarks.
  • 11. Nomination authority. a. Typed name (last, first, middle initial).

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.

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.

Some procedures pair a DD form with a service form. The two numbering systems are separate — service forms answer to a service proponent, DD forms to not stated or another Department office — and a matching number in each system means nothing.

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.

The material here is descriptive. Nothing on the page constitutes legal or procedural advice, and no statement here determines whether a submitted form will be accepted. Such questions go to not stated, a servicing administrative office, or the authority identified in not stated.

Questions and answers

What is DD Form 1870?
DD Form 1870, Nomination for Appointment to the United States Service Academy, September 2005
Which edition is current?
Not stated by the publisher
Who is responsible for this form?
Not stated
In which formats can it be downloaded?
PDF

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