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Defense Department form, series DD, number 2715-3. Full title: DD Form 2715-3, Prisoner Restoration/Return to Duty, Clemency and Parole Statement, March 2013. Function: Prisoner Restoration/Return to Duty, Clemency and Parole Statement. 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.
Common users: service members regardless of branch, Defense civilian staff, and the offices that file, verify or retain the finished document.
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: 2 pages. Fillable field count: roughly 47.
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.
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.
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
- Report date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no separators).
- 1. Prisoner name (last, first, middle).
- 2. DoD Identification number or Social security number (last 4 only).
- 3. Correctional facility.
- Section 1 - Restoration/Return to duty. Press space bar to mark X in first box if requests restoration/return, or second box if does not request.
- Section 2 - Clemency. 6. Mark X if waiving right to be considered for clemency.
- 7. I hereby request to be considered for clemency in the following form(s): Mark X if reduction in length of sentence.
- Mark X if reduction or remission of forfeitures.
- Mark X if reduction or remission of fine.
- Mark X if substitution of administrative discharge for punitive discharge.
- Mark X if remission of dismissal (officers and cadets only).
- Mark X if mitigation of a Dishonorable Discharge to a Bad Conduct Discharge.
- Mark X if restoration to pay grade.
- Enter pay grade if applicable.
- Mark X if restoration of precedence (officers only).
- 8. My reasons for requesting clemency are as follows:
- 9. Prisoner/supervisee signature.
- 10. Witness signature.
- 11. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 12. Certification. a. Certifying official (name, grade and title).
- Signature of certifying official.
- Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Section 3 - Parole. 13. Under regulation I become eligible for parole consideration on: (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 14. Mark X in first box if desire, or second box if do not desire, to be considered for parole.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 2715-3?
- DD Form 2715-3, Prisoner Restoration/Return to Duty, Clemency and Parole Statement, 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?