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DD Form 458 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD Form 458, Charge Sheet, May 2000. Stated purpose: Charge Sheet. 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.
Users include uniformed members of any branch, DoD civilian employees, contractor personnel where authorized, and the administrative staff who process the completed record.
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 2 pages and contains approximately 66 fillable fields.
The pdf is the primary distribution format. A fillable pdf accepts typed entries in defined field boxes and stores them in the file; a printable pdf is a flat image of the blank, meant for pen entry after printing. The distinction matters for legibility and for records that pass between offices.
An xfdl file is provided as well. Xfdl is the IBM Lotus Forms format, historically standard across Defense form distribution, and it requires IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or an equivalent reader; ordinary pdf software will not open it.
Every listed format is free to download. Modern pdf software handles the pdf files, with the caveat that browser-embedded viewers sometimes ignore field properties that a desktop reader honours.
What the form asks for
- of: enter authority
- Section 2. Charges and specifications. 10. Enter specific charge.
- Violation of the U C M J, Article:
- Subject to the following instructions. See R C M 601 e, or if none, so state.
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- Section 1 - Personal data. 1. Name of accused: last, first, middle initial.
- 2. Social security number, do not include dashes.
- 3. Grade or rank.
- 4. Pay grade.
- 5. Unit or organization.
- 6. Current service. a. Initial date.
- 6.b. Term of current service.
- 7. Pay per month. a. Basic pay.
- 7.b. Sea or foreign duty pay per month.
- 7.c. Total pay per month.
- 8. Nature of restraint of accused.
- 9. Date restraint imposed.
- Enter specification.
- Section 3. Preferral. 11.a. Name of accuser: last, first, middle initial.
- 11.b. Grade.
- 11.c. Organization of accuser.
- 11.d. Signature of accuser.
- 11.e. Date signed. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- Affidavit: Before me, the undersigned, authorized by law to administer oath in cases of this character, personally appeared the above named accuser this: enter day
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.
Instructions printed on the form or in not stated govern individual field entries. Where the two differ, the governing publication controls.
Once executed, routing follows not stated and the submitting organization's own instruction. Keeping a copy is standard.
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.
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 458?
- DD Form 458, Charge Sheet, May 2000
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?