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Department of Defense form 2704. Official designation: DD Form 2704, Victim/Witness Certification and Election Concerning Prisoner Status, March 2013. Purpose: Victim/Witness Certification and Election Concerning Prisoner Status. 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.
The form reaches military personnel across the services, civilian employees of the Department, and the personnel and records specialists who receive it.
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 3 pages with about 142 entry fields.
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
- Incident number.
- Installation.
- City.
- State.
- Zip code.
- Court martial convening order number, date, and issuing command.
- Section 2 - Certification of no victims or witnesses. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Signature of trial counsel or designee.
- Typed name (last, first).
- Grade and title.
- Telephone number.
- Section 3 - Certification of advice to victims or witnesses. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Signature of trial counsel or designee.
- Typed name (last, first).
- Grade and title.
- Telephone number.
- Section 4 - Distribution. Addresses (include 9-digit zip code and telephone number). 1. Military Service Central Repository.
- 2. Law enforcement/special investigation Address (include 9-digit zip code and telephone number).
- 3. Correctional/brig facility (name and address) (include 9-digit zip code and telephone number).
- Name of accused (last, first, middle initial).
- Social security number (last 4 digits only).
- 1. Name (last, first, middle initial) and age if under 18. Line 1.
- Affiliation status. Select one.
- Status. Select one.
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.
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.
Field-level instructions appear on the form itself and in not stated. The directive is the controlling text.
After completion, the copy goes to the office designated by not stated or by local procedure. Retention of a personal copy is ordinary practice and costs nothing.
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.
Forms are reissued for several reasons: directive revision, changed data requirements, updated notice language. Confirming not stated at the moment of download covers the risk.
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 2704?
- DD Form 2704, Victim/Witness Certification and Election Concerning Prisoner Status, March 2013
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?