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Department of Defense form 2839. Official designation: DD Form 2839, Career Status Bonus (CSB) Election, April 2009. Purpose: Career Status Bonus Election. 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.
Users include uniformed members of any branch, DoD civilian employees, contractor personnel where authorized, and the administrative staff who process the completed record.
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: 3 pages. Fillable field count: roughly 48.
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
- Section 1 - Personal identification. 1. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. Social security number (do not include dashes).
- 3. Rank/pay grade/branch of service.
- 4. Date of initial entry into military service (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 5. Date for determination of active duty service completed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 6. Date of notification (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Section 2. Determination of eligibility. 7. Press space bar to mark X in first box if eligible to elect Career Status Bonus, or second box if not eligible.
- If not eligible, give reason.
- 8. Date of determination (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 9. Service authenticating representative. a. Printed name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Signature.
- Section 3 - Not eligible for Career Status Bonus. 10.a. Signature.
- b. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 11. Witness. a. Printed name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Rank/pay grade.
- c. Position/duty title.
- d. Organization.
- e. Organizational address.
- f. Signature.
- g. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Section 4 - Eligible and electing. 12.a. I elect to receive the CSB as follows: X first box if single lump sum payment of $30,000, second box if 2 annual payments of $15,000, third box if 3 annual payments of $10,000, fourth box if 4 annual payments of $7,500, or fifth box if 5 annual payments of $6,000.
- b. Signature.
- c. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 13. Witness. a. Printed name (last, first, middle initial).
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.
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.
Once executed, routing follows not stated and the submitting organization's own instruction. Keeping a copy is standard.
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.
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.
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 2839?
- DD Form 2839, Career Status Bonus (CSB) Election, April 2009
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?