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Department of Defense form 2685. Official designation: DD Form 2585, Tactic and Threat Severity Level Worksheet, February 1994.. Purpose: Tactic and Threat Severity Level Worksheet. Current edition not stated, status not stated.
Issued under not stated, with not stated as proponent. A DD number marks a Department-wide instrument: the same blank form serves every military department and the defense agencies, rather than one service alone.
Common users: service members regardless of branch, Defense civilian staff, and the offices that file, verify or retain the finished document.
Submission follows the schedule set by not stated and by local implementing procedures. This page provides the blank form for download and general orientation only.
The download set covers PDF. Document length is 1 pages with about 194 entry fields.
Distribution centres on pdf. Two states exist: fillable, where field boxes accept keyboard input and retain it, and printable, a static blank produced for manual completion. Typed data reproduces cleanly across copies; handwritten data depends on the writer.
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.
Every listed format is free to download. Modern pdf software handles the pdf files, with the caveat that browser-embedded viewers sometimes ignore field properties that a desktop reader honours.
What the form asks for
- 1. Project/Building identification.
- 2. Asset identification.
- Date.
- 4. Applicable tactics. Press space bar to mark X if a. Moving vehicle bomb.
- X if c. Exterior.
- X if d. Standoff weapons.
- X if e. Ballistics.
- X if b. stationary vehicle bomb.
- X if g. Covert entry.
- X if h. Insider compromise.
- X if i. Visual surveillance.
- X if f. Forced entry.
- X if k. Elec. emanations eavesdropping.
- X if j. Acoustic eavesdropping.
- X if m. Supplies bomb delivery.
- X if l. Mail bomb delivery.
- X if n. Airborne contamination.
- X if o. Waterborne contamination.
- 5. Applicable aggressors. X if a. Unsophisticated criminals.
- Enter VL, V, L, M, or H. a. Moving vehicle bomb: a. Unsophisticated criminals.
- b. Stationary vehicle bomb: Unsophisticated criminals.
- c. Exterior: Unsophisticated criminals.
- d. Standoff weapons: Unsophisticated criminals.
- e. Ballistics: Unsophisticated criminals.
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.
The signature block takes an actual signature. On paper this means ink; electronically it means a credentialed digital signature, commonly CAC-based. Typed text in a signature field satisfies neither.
Privacy Act Statements accompany DoD forms that gather personal identifiers. Content of the statement: legal authority, principal purpose, routine uses, and the effect of declining to provide the information. It is printed on the form for that reason.
Recurring errors: entry on a superseded edition, blanks left in mandatory fields, illegible handwriting on scanned copies, dates in a format other than the one the form specifies, missing signature or missing date beside the signature.
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 2685 is normally found by its number alone, without regard to service.
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.
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.
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 2685?
- DD Form 2585, Tactic and Threat Severity Level Worksheet, February 1994.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?