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Department of Defense form 2708. Official designation: DD Form 2708, Receipt for Pre-trial/Post-trial Prisoner or Detained Person, March 2013. Purpose: Receipt for Pre-Trial/Post Trial Prisoner or Detained Person. Current edition 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.
The form reaches military personnel across the services, civilian employees of the Department, and the personnel and records specialists who receive it.
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 22 entry fields.
The pdf is the primary distribution format. A fillable pdf accepts typed entries in defined field boxes and stores them in the file; a printable pdf is a flat image of the blank, meant for pen entry after printing. The distinction matters for legibility and for records that pass between offices.
An xfdl file is provided as well. Xfdl is the IBM Lotus Forms format, historically standard across Defense form distribution, and it requires IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or an equivalent reader; ordinary pdf software will not open it.
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.a. Received from (Unit/agency).
- c. Time.
- d. Prisoner name (last, first, middle).
- e. Registration number/social security number (last 4 digits only).
- f. Grade.
- g. Branch.
- 2. Type of confinement. Press space bar to mark X if pre-trial.
- X if post-trial.
- X if under custody.
- 4. Purpose of transfer (reason for temporary release).
- 5. Status of personal property (where prisoner's personal property is located: unit supply room, personal storage facility, home of record, etc.).
- 3. Offenses/charges or UCMJ articles violated (list article number(s) and specific charges associated with each).
- 6. Remarks (noteworthy information about prisoner's health, behavior etc. that will assist).
- 7. Receipt for person/prisoner. a. Name, grade, title.
- b. Social security number (last 4 digits only).
- c. Grade.
- d. Unit/agency.
- b. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- b. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- i. Duty station.
- h. Installation.
- e. Signature.
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.
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.
Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 2708 is normally found by its number alone, without regard to service.
Where a DA form is cited alongside a DD form, the two belong to different systems: DA numbering is Army-specific and administered by an Army proponent, while DD numbering is Defense-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. Numbers do not translate between the systems.
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.
Scope of this page: distribution of a published form and description of its contents. It offers no legal guidance and no assurance regarding any particular submission. Direct procedural questions to not stated, to the servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2708?
- DD Form 2708, Receipt for Pre-trial/Post-trial Prisoner or Detained Person, 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?