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Department of Defense form 2506. Official designation: DD Form 2506, Vehicle Impoundment Report, May 2000. Purpose: Vehicle Impoundment Report. 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.
The form reaches military personnel across the services, civilian employees of the Department, and the personnel and records specialists who receive it.
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 70 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.
What the form asks for
- Part I - Identification. 1. Vehicle identification. a. Make.
- b. Model.
- c. Year.
- d. Color.
- e. Vehicle identification number.
- f. Vehicle license. (1) Number.
- (2) State.
- (3) Year.
- g. Mileage.
- h. Decal number.
- 2. Registered owner. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Address (street, apartment number, city, state and zip code).
- c. Organization.
- d. Telephone number (include area code).
- 3. Vehicle operator. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Address (street, apartment number, city, state and zip code).
- c. Organization.
- d. Telephone number (include area code).
- Part II - Description. 4. Reason for impoundment. Press space bar to mark X if accident.
- X if abandoned.
- X if burned.
- X if illegally parked.
- X if driver was intoxicated (DWI).
- X if stolen.
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.
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 Superseded editions of DD forms are frequently rejected at the receiving office, since Department-wide forms change centrally and older layouts lose their field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.
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.
Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 2506 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 2506?
- DD Form 2506, Vehicle Impoundment Report, May 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?