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DD Form 2947-1 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD 2947, Sep 2016, "TRICARE Young Adult Application". Stated purpose: TRICARE Young Adult Application - 2018 (EAST). Edition date not stated; status not stated.
Prescribing authority: not stated. Proponent: not stated. Unlike service-specific publications, DD forms carry Department-level authority and apply across the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force and Coast Guard when operating under Defense jurisdiction.
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.
Available formats: PDF. The form runs 4 pages and contains approximately 106 fillable fields.
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
- Contractor's name
- Telephone or fax for OCONUS
- Contractor website.
- Servicing contractor information: Name, mailing address, web address and service fees..
- Street Address
- Telephone
- Street Address
- Telephone
- Street Address
- City, state, 9-digit zip code
- Telephone
- Street Address
- City, state, 9-digit zip code
- Telephone
- TRICARE Young Adult option desired. Press space bar to mark X in first box if TRICARE Standard, second box if TRICARE Prime, third box if TRICARE Overseas Program Prime, or fourth box if Uniformed Services Family Health Plan.
- Section I - Sponsor information. 1. Sponsor name (last, first, middle initial) (must match DEERS).
- 3. Sponsor is: X first box if active duty, second if retired, third if Selected Reserve, fourth if Retired Reserve, or fifth if deceased.
- 4. Sponsor's work telephone number (include area code/extensions).
- Residential telephone number(s).
- 5. Sponsor's email address.
- X this box to receive TRICARE e-mails.
- X if new address.
- 6. Sponsor's residence address (street, apartment number, city, state, zip code, country).
- X if same as residence address.
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.
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.
Guidance for specific entries sits on the form face and in not stated; the directive is authoritative where the two do not agree.
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.
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.
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 2947-1?
- DD 2947, Sep 2016, "TRICARE Young Adult Application"
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?