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Defense Department form, series DD, number 2812. Full title: DD Form 2812, Commander's Preliminary Assessment and Recommendation Regarding Missing Person, November 1999.. Function: Commander's Preliminary Assessment and Recommendation Regarding Missing Person. Edition in force: not stated. Publisher 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.
Common users: service members regardless of branch, Defense civilian staff, and the offices that file, verify or retain the finished document.
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.
Formats offered: PDF. Length: 1 pages. Fillable field count: roughly 17.
Pdf serves as the base format. In the fillable variant, each box is an interactive field that holds typed text inside the document. In the flat printable variant, no fields exist — the page prints as a blank to be completed by hand. Typed entries survive transmission; handwriting does not always survive scanning.
What the form asks for
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- Section 2 - Assessment of Circumstances. 8. Assess the circumstances of the loss and describe why you believe the person is missing (Provide additional rationale and any other information pertinent to this assessment as attachments.) See attachments: enter first attachment.
- Through: last attachment.
- Section 1 - Identity of missing person. 1. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 3. Rank/grade/civilian.
- 4. Date information received regarding missing person's loss (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 5. Theater in which serving at time of loss.
- 6. Branch of armed service to which assigned, detailed, or attached.
- 7. Unit, facility, or area to or in which the person is assigned.
- 8. Assessment of circumstances of the loss.
- Section 3 - Recommendation. 9. Commander of unit, facility or area to or in which the missing person is assigned. a. Typed name (Last, First, Middle Initial).
- 9.b. Grade.
- 9.c. Unit.
- 9.d. Signature.
- 9.e. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
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.
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.
Once executed, routing follows not stated and the submitting organization's own instruction. Keeping a copy is standard.
Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 2812 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 2812?
- DD Form 2812, Commander's Preliminary Assessment and Recommendation Regarding Missing Person, November 1999.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?