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DD Form 2951 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD Form 2951, Initial Report of Suspected Child Abuse in DoD Operated or Sponsored Out-of-Home Care Activities, June 2012. Stated purpose: Initial Report of Suspected Child Sexual Abuse in a DoD Operated or Sponsored Out-of-Home Care Actvities. Edition date not stated; 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: 4 pages. Fillable field count: roughly 79.
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.
What the form asks for
- Section A - Administrative Information. 1. Name of installation.
- 2. State/country.
- Section B - Information on probable and potential victims. 8. Probable victims. 1st. Age.
- Sex.
- Sponsor's service.
- 2nd victim. Age.
- Sex.
- Sponsor's service.
- 3rd victim. Age.
- Sex.
- Sponsor's service.
- 4th victim. Age.
- Sex.
- Sponsor's service.
- 5th victim. Age.
- Sex.
- Sponsor's service.
- 6th victim. Age.
- Sex.
- Sponsor's service.
- 7th victim. Age.
- Sex.
- Sponsor's service.
- 8th victim. Age.
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.
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 2951 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.
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 2951?
- DD Form 2951, Initial Report of Suspected Child Abuse in DoD Operated or Sponsored Out-of-Home Care Activities, June 2012
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?