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Department of Defense form 2489. Official designation: DD Form 2489, DoDMERB Farnsworth Lantern and Red/Green Color Vision Tests, March 2008. Purpose: DoD Medical Examination Review Board (DoDMERB) Farnsworth Lantern & Red/Green Color Vision Tests. Current edition 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.
Common users: service members regardless of branch, Defense civilian staff, and the offices that file, verify or retain the finished document.
Submission follows the schedule set by not stated and by local implementing procedures. This page provides the blank form for download and general orientation only.
The download set covers PDF. Document length is 2 pages with about 41 entry 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
- 1. Name of applicant (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- First run. Indicate by letter the applicants' responses. Green/Red.
- White/green.
- Green/white.
- Green/green.
- Red/Green.
- White/Red.
- White/White.
- Red/White.
- Red/Red.
- Number of errors per run.
- Second run. Green/Red.
- White/green.
- Green/white.
- Green/green.
- Red/Green.
- White/Red.
- White/White.
- Red/White.
- Red/Red.
- Number of errors per run.
- Third run. Green/Red.
- White/green.
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.
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.
Associated forms are traced by number within the series. Because the DD sequence is common to all military departments, no service qualifier is needed to identify a referenced form.
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.
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 2489?
- DD Form 2489, DoDMERB Farnsworth Lantern and Red/Green Color Vision Tests, March 2008
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?