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DD Form 2713 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD Form 2713, Prisoner Observation Report, March 2013. Stated purpose: Prisoner Observation Report. 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.
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 38.
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.
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.
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
- Report date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 1. Prisoner name (last, first, middle).
- 4. Housing unit/dorm.
- 5. Cellblock.
- 6. Detail.
- 7. Cell no./bunk no.
- 8. Observation. a. Type of observation: press space bar to mark X in first box if favorable, second box if unfavorable.
- X if injury observed.
- X if behavioral observation.
- b. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- c. Time.
- d. Location.
- e. Was prisoner notified about this report? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 9. Observation reported by. a. Name (last, first, middle).9. Observation reported by. a. Name (last, first, middle).
- b. Grade.
- c. Title.
- d. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 10. Witness. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Grade.
- c. Title.
- d. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 11. Observation summary. Give an in-depth description of the observation; include all necessary information.
- 12. Signature of reporting person.
- b. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
Completion runs in the order printed on the page: identifying data at the head, the body of the entry next, certification at the foot. Header data frequently governs what belongs in the fields below it.
Verify the edition date against not stated before entry. Department-level revisions replace the blank across every service simultaneously, so an old copy in a desk drawer may no longer correspond to current field numbering.
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.
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.
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.
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 2713?
- DD Form 2713, Prisoner Observation Report, 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?