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Department of Defense form 2331. Official designation: DD Form 23 31, Waiver or Withdrawal of Appellate Rights in General Courts-Martial Subject to Examination in the Office of the Judge Advocate General, 20160512 draft.. Purpose: Waiver/Withdrawal of Appellate Rights in General Courts-Martial Subject to Examination in the Office of the Judge Advocate General. 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.
The form reaches military personnel across the services, civilian employees of the Department, and the personnel and records specialists who receive it.
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 2 pages and contains approximately 20 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.
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
- I have read the attached action, dated:
- I have consulted with:
- Typed name of accused.
- Rank of accused.
- Signature of accused.
- Date.
- Press space bar to mark X if 1. I represented the accused at his or her court martial.
- Mark X if 2. I am associate counsel detailed under R. C. M. 11 10 b. I have communicated with the accused's, detailed, individual military, civilian, appellate, defense counsel concerning the accused's waiver or withdrawal and discussed this communication with the accused.
- Mark X if 3. I am substitute counsel detailed under R. C. M. 11 10 b.
- Mark X if 4. I am a civilian counsel whom the accused consulted concerning this matter.
- Mark X if 5. I am appellate defense counsel for the accused.
- 4. I am a member in good standing of the bar of:
- Typed name of counsel.
- Unit of counsel.
- Rank of counsel.
- Business address, if civilian counsel.
- Signature of counsel.
- Date.
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.
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.
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.
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 2331?
- DD Form 23 31, Waiver or Withdrawal of Appellate Rights in General Courts-Martial Subject to Examination in the Office of the Judge Advocate General, 20160512 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?