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Department of Defense form 372. Official designation: DD Form 372, Request for Verification of Birth, November 2012. Purpose: Request for Verification of Birth. Current edition 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.
Available formats: PDF. The form runs 1 pages and contains approximately 29 fillable 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
- 1. Date of request. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day, no spacers.
- Section 1 (Fill in every item in this section). 2. Full name of child at time of birth. Last name, first name, middle names.
- 3. Sex. Press space bar to mark X in first box if male, second box if female.
- 4. Date of birth. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 5. Place of birth. a. City.
- b. county.
- c. State.
- 6. Full name of father: last, first, middle names.
- 7. Full name of mother: last, first, middle names.
- 8. Recruiting officer/representative making request. a. Name: last, first, middle initial.
- b. Rank/Grade.
- c. Title.
- OMB expires November 30, 2015.
- d. Signature.
- Section 2 (for use by Vital Statistics Department only). 9. Corrections of above statement made according to facts on file by. a. Name: last, first, middle initial.
- b. Organization.
- Organization address: c. Street.
- d. City.
- e. State.
- f. Zip code.
- 10. Certificate number.
- 11. File date of certificate. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 12. Verified by (signature).
- 13. Date signed. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
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 372 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.
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 372?
- DD Form 372, Request for Verification of Birth, November 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?