Download the form
DD Form 3045 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD Form X634, Statement of Disposition of Military Remains, 20150129 draft. Stated purpose: Statement of Disposition of Military Remains. 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.
The form reaches military personnel across the services, civilian employees of the Department, and the personnel and records specialists who receive it.
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.
The download set covers PDF. Document length is 3 pages with about 31 entry fields.
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
- 3. DCIPS Case number.
- 1. Name of deceased (last, first, middle initial).
- 4. Person Authorized to Direct Disposition (PADD). a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. Service/grade of deceased.
- b. Relationship to deceased.
- c. Telephone number (include area code).
- d. Current residence address (street, apartment number, city, state and zip code).
- 5. Selection of Disposition Options. Option 1. Military assumes custody, transports to funeral home, interment in civilian cemetery. Initials.
- I understand the reimbursement for expenses incurred cannot exceed: (amount).
- Option 2. Military assumes custody, transports to funeral home, interment in government cemetery. Initials.
- I understand the reimbursement for expenses incurred cannot exceed: (amount).
- Option 3 - Military assumes custody, direct transportation to government cemetery. Initials.
- I understand the reimbursement for expenses incurred cannot exceed: (amount).
- Option 4 - Cremation. Initials.
- I understand the reimbursement for expenses incurred cannot exceed: (amount).
- (A) Amount for interment/entombment in a civilian cemetery.
- (A) Amount for interment/entombment in a government cemetery (Federal or state).
- Option 5. I desire to make all arrangements. Initials.
- Option 6 initials.
- I hereby relinquish my rights. New PADD (next person in hierarchy) is: Name and relationship.
- 6. Receiving funeral home (Name, address, telephone number).
- 7. Cemetery (or where final disposition of remains is effected) (Name, address, telephone number).
- 8. Casket selection (not applicable to options 4 or 5). Press space bar to mark X in first box if 18-GA steel with silver tone finish, second box if solid hardwood with walnut tone finish.
- 9. Urn selection (Option 4). X first box if solid bronze, second if solid walnut.
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.
Instructions printed on the form or in not stated govern individual field entries. Where the two differ, the governing publication controls.
The completed document moves to the office named in not stated or in local guidance. A retained copy is conventional practice.
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.
A DD number and a DA number may appear in the same instruction without being related. DA forms belong to the Army alone; DD forms belong to the Department and are administered at Department level. The sequences are independent.
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 3045?
- DD Form X634, Statement of Disposition of Military Remains, 20150129 draft
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?