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Department of Defense form 2609. Official designation: DD Form 2609, ROTC Summary Report, February 2016. Purpose: Reserve Officers Training Corps Resources Summary 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.
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.
Formats offered: PDF. Length: 3 pages. Fillable field count: roughly 118.
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.
Free download applies to every format listed. Any current pdf reader opens the pdf files, though field behaviour is most reliable in a full desktop reader rather than a browser preview.
What the form asks for
- A. Service.
- B. Date of report (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- (2) Actual: fiscal year.
- (3) Programmed: fiscal year.
- (4) Current estimate: fiscal year.
- (5) President's budget: fiscal year.
- (6) President's budget: fiscal year.
- a. Staff/support: current estimate.
- a. Staff/support: president's budget.
- a. Staff/support: president's budget.
- b. Cadet pay: actual.
- b. Cadet pay: programmed.
- b. Cadet pay: current estimate.
- b. Cadet pay: president's budget.
- b. Cadet pay: president's budget.
- c. Cadet subsistence: actual.
- c. Cadet subsistence: current estimate.
- c. Cadet subsistence: president's budget.
- c. Cadet subsistence: president's budget.
- d. Cadet travel: programmed.
- d. Cadet travel: current estimate.
- d. Cadet travel: president's budget.
- d. Cadet travel: president's budget.
- d. Cadet travel: actual.
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.
Field-level instructions appear on the form itself and in not stated. The directive is the controlling text.
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.
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 2609?
- DD Form 2609, ROTC Summary Report, February 2016
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?