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DD Form 2338-1 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD Form 2338 - 1, Inventory Control Effectiveness Report - Ammunition, October 2000. Stated purpose: Inventory Control Effectiveness (Ice) Report Ammunition. Edition date not stated; status not stated.
Prescribing authority: not stated. Proponent: not stated. Unlike service-specific publications, DD forms carry Department-level authority and apply across the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force and Coast Guard when operating under Defense jurisdiction.
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.
Formats offered: PDF. Length: 2 pages. Fillable field count: roughly 188.
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.
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.
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
- Reporting organization.
- Quarter ending.
- Fiscal year to date.
- Part I. Performance. 1. Materiel release denials. a. Lines directed for shipments. Quarter: low risk.
- Fiscal year: low risk.
- Fiscal year: high risk.
- b. Total materiel release denials. Quarter: low risk.
- Quarter: high risk.
- Fiscal year: low risk.
- Fiscal year: high risk.
- c. Materiel denial rate. Quarter: low risk.
- Quarter: high risk.
- Fiscal year: low risk.
- Fiscal year: high risk.
- Quarter: high risk.
- 2. Receipt processing. a. Receipts stored and posted. Quarter: low risk.
- Quarter: high risk.
- Fiscal year: low risk.
- Fiscal year: high risk.
- b. Receipts stored and posted on time. Quarter: low risk.
- Quarter: high risk.
- Fiscal year: low risk.
- Fiscal year: high risk.
- c. On time receipt rate. Quarter: low risk.
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.
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.
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Errors seen most often involve edition mismatch, empty mandatory fields, illegibility after scanning, date formats inconsistent with the printed instruction, and unsigned or undated certification.
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.
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.
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Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2338-1?
- DD Form 2338 - 1, Inventory Control Effectiveness Report - Ammunition, October 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?