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Department of Defense form 370. Official designation: DD Form 370, Request for Reference, March 2009. Purpose: Request for Reference. Current edition 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: 2 pages. Fillable field count: roughly 36.
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
- To: Enter address here.
- 2. Applicant's Mailing address: Street, Apartment number, city, state, and zip code.
- 3. Date of birth: four digit year, two digit month, two digit day, no separators.
- 4. Dates of school attendance or employment: a. date from. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 4. Date of school attendance or employment: b. date to. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 5. Typed name: last, first, middle initial.
- 6. Date signed. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 7. Unit/command name.
- 8. Signature of recruiting representative.
- 9. Unit/command mailing address: Street, city, state, and zip code.
- 1. Applicant 's Name: last, first, middle initial.
- 10. What is your relationship to the applicant? Press space bar to mark X in first box if employer, second box if school official, or third box if other.
- Specify other relationship to the applicant.
- 11. How long have you known the applicant? a. Date known from: four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 11.b. Date known to: four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 12. Applicant's highest school grade completed or job title.
- 13. Inclusive dates of school attendance or employment in your school or firm: a. Date from: four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 13.b. to: four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 14. If applicant left school or job, or was expelled, dismissed or terminated, give specific reason if known.
- 15.a. How do you rate the applicant's trustworthiness: Mark X in first box if outstanding, second box if average, third box if unsatisfactory, or fourth box if not observed.
- 15.b. How do you rate the applicant's adaptability: Mark X in first box if outstanding, second box if average, third box if unsatisfactory, or fourth box if not observed.
- 15.c. How do you rate the applicant's ability to work well with others: Mark X in first box if outstanding, second box if average, third box if unsatisfactory, or fourth box if not observed.
- 15.d. How do you rate the applicant's initiative: Mark X in first box if outstanding, second box if average, third box if unsatisfactory, or fourth box if not observed.
- 15.e. How do you rate the applicant's judgment: Mark X in first box if outstanding, second box if average, third box if unsatisfactory, or fourth box if not observed.
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.
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.
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 370 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.
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.
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 370?
- DD Form 370, Request for Reference, March 2009
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?