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DD Form 2643 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD Form 2643, High Cost Foreign Lease, September 1993. Stated purpose: High Cost Foreign Lease. 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.
Common users: service members regardless of branch, Defense civilian staff, and the offices that file, verify or retain the finished document.
Timing of submission is fixed by not stated and by the implementing guidance of the submitting organization. What follows describes the blank document, not agency procedure.
The download set covers PDF. Document length is 1 pages with about 39 entry 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. Effective date.
- 2. Lease number.
- 3. Quarters I D code.
- Section 1 - Position Data. 4. Position normally assigned to unit.
- 5. Normal grade for position.
- Section 2 - Present Incumbent. 6. Name.
- 7. Grade.
- 8. Scheduled arrival date.
- 9. Date tour ends.
- 10. Organization assignment.
- 11. Gender and age of dependents (except spouse).
- Section 3 - Component Leasing Unit. 12. DoD component.
- 13. Executive agent (installation/MACOM administering lease agreement).
- 14. Reason for lease. Press space bar to mark X in first box if special command position, second box if country requirement, third box if attache system, fourth box if undue hardship, or fifth box if other.
- If other reason, explain.
- Section 4 - Lease Data. 15. Address (include apartment number, city, state, country and 9 digit zip code).
- 16. Gross square feet.
- 17. Net square feet.
- 18. Number of bedrooms
- 19. Number of full baths.
- 20. Number of half baths.
- 21. Land square footage.
- 22. Unit type. X first box if detached, second box if high rise, third box if duplex, etc.
- 23. Distance from work site. a. Miles.
The document is filled from the top down. Identification precedes substance, substance precedes certification. Fields lower on the page are commonly keyed to entries made above them.
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 Superseded editions of DD forms are frequently rejected at the receiving office, since Department-wide forms change centrally and older layouts lose their field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.
Field-level instructions appear on the form itself and in not stated. The directive is the controlling text.
Once executed, routing follows not stated and the submitting organization's own instruction. Keeping a copy is standard.
Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 2643 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.
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Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2643?
- DD Form 2643, High Cost Foreign Lease, September 1993
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?