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DD Form 2133 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD Form 2133, Joint Airlift Inspection Record/Checklist, 20130415 draft. Stated purpose: Joint Airlift Inspection Record. 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.
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.
The download set covers PDF. Document length is 2 pages with about 26 entry 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.
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.
Free download applies to every format listed. Any current pdf reader opens the pdf files, though field behaviour is most reliable in a full desktop reader rather than a browser preview.
What the form asks for
- Page number.
- Total number of pages.
- 2. Departure airfield.
- 3. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 4. Aircraft type and mission number.
- 5. Load/chalk number.
- 6. Start time.
- 7. Complete time.
- 1. Deploying force.
- 8. Mobility force.
- 9. Chapter 3 movement? X first box if yes, second if no.
- 10. Increment/serial/bumper number and type/TCN.
- 10. Increment/serial/bumper number and type/TCN.
- 10. Increment/serial/bumper number and type/TCN.
- 10. Increment/serial/bumper number and type/TCN.
- 10. Increment/serial/bumper number and type/TCN.
- 10. Increment/serial/bumper number and type/TCN.
- 10. Increment/serial/bumper number and type/TCN.
- 10. Increment/serial/bumper number and type/TCN.
- 10. Increment/serial/bumper number and type/TCN.
- 10. Increment/serial/bumper number and type/TCN.
- 10. Increment/serial/bumper number and type/TCN.
- 10. Increment/serial/bumper number and type/TCN.
- 16. Deploying Force Representative (print name/rank/signature).
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.
The current edition is not stated. Superseded editions of DD forms are frequently rejected at the receiving office, since Department-wide forms change centrally and older layouts lose their field correspondence. Edition date appears in the lower corner of the printed blank.
Certification requires a signature in the designated block — ink on paper, or a digital signature where the receiving office supports one. Typing a name into the field does not constitute execution. CAC-based signing is the usual digital method for Defense forms.
Privacy Act notice: DD forms that collect personal data carry a Privacy Act Statement stating the authority for collection, the principal purpose, routine uses and whether disclosure is voluntary or mandatory. The statement is part of the form and should be read before entry, not after.
Recurring errors: entry on a superseded edition, blanks left in mandatory fields, illegible handwriting on scanned copies, dates in a format other than the one the form specifies, missing signature or missing date beside the signature.
Field-level instructions appear on the form itself and in not stated. The directive is the controlling text.
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.
Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 2133 is normally found by its number alone, without regard to service.
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.
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.
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 2133?
- DD Form 2133, Joint Airlift Inspection Record/Checklist, 20130415 draft
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?