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Defense Department form, series DD, number 3047. Full title: DD Form X636, Disposition of Remains Election Statement - Notification of Subsequently Identified Partial Remains, 20150129 draft. Function: Disposition of Remains Election Statement Notification of Subsequently Identified Partial Remains. Edition in force: not stated. Publisher 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.
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.
The download set covers PDF. Document length is 1 pages with about 24 entry fields.
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
- 1. Name of deceased (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. Service/grade of deceased.
- 3. DCIPS Case number.
- 4. Person Authorized to Direct Disposition (PADD). a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 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. Transferred for burial above original casket. Initials.
- Funeral home name and address.
- Option 2. Transferred to funeral home for cremation at government expense. Initials.
- Urn choice. X first box if solid bronze, second if solid walnut.
- Funeral home name and address.
- Option 3. Cremated and delivered. Initials.
- Urn choice. X first box if solid bronze, second if solid walnut.
- Deliver to: Name and address.
- Option 4. I authorize the appropriate Military Service to make disposition by burial at sea. Initials.
- Option 5. Armed Forces Medical Examiner System may retain for teaching/research and as a medical specimen. Initials.
- I do not want to be notified, and authorize the parent Service to make disposition. Initials.
- 6. In the event that further subsequent remains are identified: Notify, option 1. I would like to be notified and choose to accept individual portions for disposition. Initials.
- b. Date.
- 8.a. Typed or printed name of witness.
- c. Date.
- 7.a. Signature of PADD.
- b. Signature of witness.
Completion runs in the order printed on the page: identifying data at the head, the body of the entry next, certification at the foot. Header data frequently governs what belongs in the fields below it.
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.
Guidance for specific entries sits on the form face and in not stated; the directive is authoritative where the two do not agree.
The completed document moves to the office named in not stated or in local guidance. A retained copy is conventional practice.
Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 3047 is normally found by its number alone, without regard to service.
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.
Editions change because the underlying directive changes, because collection requirements are revised, or because Privacy Act language is updated. Checking the edition date at the point of download is the practical response.
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 3047?
- DD Form X636, Disposition of Remains Election Statement - Notification of Subsequently Identified Partial 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?