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DD Form 250-1 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD Form 250-1, Tanker/Barge Material Inspection and Receiving Report, November 1992. Stated purpose: Tanker/Barge Material Inspection and Receiving Report. Edition date not stated; status not stated.
Governing directive: not stated. Responsible office: not stated. The DD designation signals joint scope — all military departments, combatant commands and defense agencies draw on a single edition of the document.
Users include uniformed members of any branch, DoD civilian employees, contractor personnel where authorized, and the administrative staff who process the completed record.
When the form is filed is a matter of not stated and local instruction. The description here covers the document itself and how to obtain a copy.
Available formats: PDF. The form runs 1 pages and contains approximately 90 fillable fields.
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
- 1. Tanker/barge: Press space bar to mark X in first box if loading report, second box if discharge report.
- 2. Inspection office.
- 3. Report number.
- 4. Agency placing order on shipper, city, state and/or local address (loading).
- 5. Department.
- 6. Prime contract or Purchase Order number.
- 7. Name of prime contractor, city, state, and or local address (loading).
- 8. Storage contract.
- 9. Terminal or refinery shipped from, city, state, and or local address (loading).
- 10. Order number on supplier.
- 11. Shipped to (Receiving activity, City, State, and or local address).
- 12. Bill of Lading number.
- 13. Requisition or request number.
- 14. Cargo number.
- 16. Draft arrival: Fore.
- 16. Draft Arrival: Aft.
- 17. Draft sailing: Fore.
- 17. Draft Sailing: Aft.
- 18. Previous two cargoes: First.
- 15. Vessel.
- 18. Previous two cargoes: Last.
- 19. Prior inspection.
- 20. Condition of shore pipeline.
- 21. Appropriation (loading).
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 Superseded editions of DD forms are frequently rejected at the receiving office, since Department-wide forms change centrally and older layouts lose their field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.
Signature is manual ink on printed copies and digital where the receiving system accepts it. A typed name in a signature field is a name, not a signature. Common Access Card credentials support digital signature in pdf where the form and the reader permit.
Privacy Act Statements accompany DoD forms that gather personal identifiers. Content of the statement: legal authority, principal purpose, routine uses, and the effect of declining to provide the information. It is printed on the form for that reason.
Frequent defects: obsolete edition, unfilled required boxes, handwriting that fails on reproduction, non-conforming date format, and certification without a corresponding date.
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.
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.
This page distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. It is not a source of legal advice and makes no representation about acceptance of any completed form. Questions of applicability, eligibility or procedure belong to not stated, the servicing personnel office, or the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 250-1?
- DD Form 250-1, Tanker/Barge Material Inspection and Receiving Report, November 1992
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?