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Defense Department form, series DD, number 2518. Full title: DD Form 2518, Fulfillment of DOD Mandatory Training Requirement, September 1988.. Function: Fulfillment of DoD Mandatory Training Requirement. Edition in force: not stated. Publisher 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.
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.
The download set covers PDF. Document length is 1 pages with about 27 entry fields.
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
- 2. Course Number.
- 3. Course title.
- 6. Signature.
- Section 1 - Individual request. 1. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 7. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 8. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 9. Title.
- 4. Course level (entry, intermediate, senior, etc.).
- 10. Series.
- 11. Grade/rank.
- 12. Office symbol.
- 13. Location.
- 14. Current level (entry, immediate, senior, etc.).
- 15. Date entered current level (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Section 2 - Supervisor's recommendation. 16. Concurrence/nonconcurrence. Press space bar to mark X in first box if concur, second box if do not concur.
- 17. Supervisor signature.
- 18. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 19. Duty title.
- 20. Office symbol.
- 21. Location.
- Section 3 - Disposition. 22. Approval/disapproval. X first box if approved, second box if disapproved.
- 23. Signature of approving official.
- 24. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 25. Duty title.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Revision occurs when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when statutory notice language is amended. Verification of the edition date at download addresses all three.
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 2518?
- DD Form 2518, Fulfillment of DOD Mandatory Training Requirement, September 1988.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?