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DD Form 3010 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD Form 3010, Road Reconnaissance Report, February 2016. Stated purpose: Road Reconnaissance Report. 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.
Timing of submission is fixed by not stated and by the implementing guidance of the submitting organization. What follows describes the blank document, not agency procedure.
The download set covers PDF. Document length is 2 pages with about 61 entry 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
- 1. Maps. a. Country.
- c. Sheet number.
- 2. Date/time group of signature.
- 4. Road marking (road number).
- 5. Length of road (specify miles or kilometers).
- 5. Width of roadway (specify feet or meters).
- Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- b. Time.
- 8. Weather during reconnaissance (including last rainfall if known).
- 9. Alignment. X first box if flat and easy, second if steep, third if sharp curves, fourth if steep and sharp.
- 11. Foundation. X first box if stable, second if unstable.
- 12.a. Surface description. X first box if smooth, second if not.
- b. Type of surface. X first box if concrete, second if bituminous, third if brick, fourth if stone, fifth if crushed, sixth if macadam, seventh if gravel, eighth if metalled, ninth if dirt, tenth if other.
- If bituminous, specify type.
- If other, describe.
- 10. Drainage. X first box if adequate, second if inadequate.
- Section III - Obstructions. 13.a. Serial number, line 1.
- b. Particulars.
- c. Grid reference.
- d. Remarks.
- a. Serial number, line 2.
- b. Particulars.
- c. Grid reference.
- d. Remarks.
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.
Certification requires a signature in the designated block — ink on paper, or a digital signature where the receiving office supports one. Typing a name into the field does not constitute execution. CAC-based signing is the usual digital method for Defense forms.
Where personal information is collected, a Privacy Act Statement appears on or with the form. It names the collection authority, the purpose, the routine uses of the data and the consequence of withholding it. Reading it precedes filling the form.
Errors seen most often involve edition mismatch, empty mandatory fields, illegibility after scanning, date formats inconsistent with the printed instruction, and unsigned or undated certification.
Field-level instructions appear on the form itself and in not stated. The directive is the controlling text.
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.
Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 3010 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.
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Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 3010?
- DD Form 3010, Road Reconnaissance Report, February 2016
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?