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Department of Defense form 453-1. Official designation: DD Form 453-1, Travel Order, August 1984. Purpose: Travel Order. 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.
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 1 pages with about 26 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
- Payment of travel allowances is authorized pursuant to 10 U S C Section 847 and 28 U S C Section 18 21. You should travel from: enter location
- in sufficient time to arrive at: enter location, on the date and time specified. You will be paid fees and expenses for attendance at the specified hearing and travel directly to and from that place.
- You may travel by: press space bar to mark X if rail.
- Mark X if commercial or military aircraft.
- Mark X if by bus.
- Mark X if privately owned automobile.
- X first box if you have or second box if have not been given a Government Transportation Request.
- If you travel by private automobile, you will be reimbursed at the rate of 20 cents per mile or: enter other amount
- plus the cost of necessary parking fees, bridge, ferry and other highway tolls incurred while traveling under this travel order. The total reimbursement will be limited to the cost of travel by the usual mode of common carrier, including per diem. Receipts and ticket stubs will be required to support your claim for cost of transportation and subsistence for each item in excess of 15 dollars or: enter amount.
- Press space bar to mark X if: you will be traveling to a high cost area. The travel regulations designate certain cities as high cost areas. Because your attendance requires travel to one of these cities, you will be authorized an actual expense allowance instead of a per diem allowance. You will be reimbursed for the actual expenses incurred, not to exceed the maximum amount for the city involved. The expenses may include lodgings, meals, tips to waiters, bellboys, maids, porters, personal laundry, pressing and dry cleaning, local transportation including usual tips, between places of lodging and duty, and other necessary expenses.
- You must itemize your daily actual expenses on your claim and receipts for lodging and any items over 15 dollars or: enter amount, are required.
- Mark X if you will not be traveling to a high-cost area. Because you are not traveling to a high-cost area, you will be entitled to a per diem allowance to cover your expenses for lodging, meals, and incidentals.
- While traveling and attending the specified hearing within the continental United States, you will be authorized a per diem equal to the daily average you pay for lodging, plus 23 dollars or (enter amount) per day for meals and incidentals, rounded off to the next dollar.
- If the resulting amount is more than the maximum per diem allowable, which is 50 dollars or (enter amount), then you will be reimbursed only the maximum per diem authorized. You are required to state on your reimbursement claim that the per diem claimed is based on the average cost to you for lodging while on required travel within the continental United States during the period covered by the claim. Receipts are required for lodging. The per diem allowance for travel overseas is based on rates set by the Department of State or by the Department of Defense, and you will be reimbursed the amount specified for the particular overseas area involved.
- You are entitled to an attendance fee of 30 dollars or (enter amount) per day under 28 U S C section 18 21.
- Address any inquiries regarding this matter to: line 1.
- Address inquiries to, line 2.
- This is travel order number:
- Dated:
- Issued by headquarters:
- T D N Accounting Citation:
- Typed name of authenticating official.
- For the commander: typed name of approving official.
- Signature of approving official.
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.
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.
Cross-referenced forms are found through the numbering system. The DD sequence is Department-level and unified, which means a number cited on the page identifies one document across the whole Department.
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 453-1?
- DD Form 453-1, Travel Order, August 1984
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?