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DD Form 2585 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD Form 2585, Repatriation Processing Center Processing Sheet, September 2014. Stated purpose: Repatriation Processing Center Processing Sheet. 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.
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.
Formats offered: PDF. Length: 10 pages. Fillable field count: roughly 198.
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.
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
- Are you escorting unaccompanied minor child(ren)? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- Section 2 - to be completed by the "responsible person". 1. Airline and flight number.
- 2. Date of arrival (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 3. Repatriation center.
- 4. Processing Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 5. Processing time (military).
- Section 3 - Evacuee identifying information (to be completed by the "responsible person". 6. Name of evacuee (last, first, middle initial).
- 7. Country evacuated from.
- 8. Date of birth (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 9. Place of birth (city, state, and country).
- 10. Country of citizenship.
- 11. Gender. X first box if male, second box if female.
- 12. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 13. Marital status. X first box if single, second box if married, third box if widowed, fourth box if separated, or fifth box if divorced.
- 14.a. Passport number.
- 14.b. Country of issue.
- 15.b. Alien number.
- 15.b. Country of issue.
- Section 3 - Evacuee identifying information (continued). Table 1b - Foreign National. Code 13. Specify other, if none of the above.
- 16. Classification numbers and agency codes (from Table 1 and Table 2 applicable to person named in item 6). a. Classification number.
- 16 b. Agency code.
- 16.c Classification number.
- 16 d. Agency code.
- 16.e. Classification number.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 2585?
- DD Form 2585, Repatriation Processing Center Processing Sheet, September 2014
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?