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Defense Department form, series DD, number 2710-1. Full title: DD Form 2710-1, Prisoner Sentence Computation, March 2013. Function: Prisoner Sentence Computation. Edition in force: not stated. Publisher 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.
Users include uniformed members of any branch, DoD civilian employees, contractor personnel where authorized, and the administrative staff who process the completed record.
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: 1 pages. Fillable field count: roughly 117.
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.
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
- Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 1. Prisoner's name (last, first, middle initial) (AKA).
- 3. Reason for computation. Press space bar to mark X if adjudged.
- Mark X if clemency.
- Mark X if audit.
- Mark X if sentenced/CA action.
- Mark X if vacated sentence.
- Mark X if return from parole/supervised release.
- Mark X if appeals court decision.
- Mark X if additional sentence.
- Mark X if other.
- Specify other reason for computation..
- 4.a. Sentence to confinement information. (1) Adjudged. Years.
- Months.
- Days.
- Effective date.
- (3) CA. Years.
- Months.
- Days.
- Effective date.
- (2) PTA. Years.
- Months.
- Days.
- Effective date.
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.
Instructions printed on the form or in not stated govern individual field entries. Where the two differ, the governing publication controls.
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.
Cross-referenced forms are found through the numbering system. The DD sequence is Department-level and unified, which means a number cited on the page identifies one document across the whole Department.
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.
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.
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 2710-1?
- DD Form 2710-1, Prisoner Sentence Computation, 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?