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DD Form 494 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD Form 494, Court-Martial Data Sheet, October 1984. Stated purpose: Court-Martial Data Sheet. Edition date not stated; 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.
The form reaches military personnel across the services, civilian employees of the Department, and the personnel and records specialists who receive it.
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.
Formats offered: PDF. Length: 6 pages. Fillable field count: roughly 200.
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. OJAG number.
- 2. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 4. Rank.
- 5. Unit/command name.
- Section A. Pretrial and trial procedure. 6.a. If a general court-martial, was the accused represented by civilian or military counsel of his/her own selection or by qualified counsel? Trial Counsel (TC). Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- Special court-martial convening authority (SPCMCA). X first box if yes, second box if no.
- General Court-Martial convening authority or Judge Advocate General (GMC/JA). X first box if yes, second box if no.
- Office of the Judge Advocate General (OJAG). X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 6.b. If not, did the accused waive his/her right to representation? TC: X first box if yes, second box if no.
- SPCMCA. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- GMC/JA. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- OJAG. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 7. Does the record show place, date and hour of each session, the assembly and each opening and closing thereafter? TC: X first box if yes, second box if no.
- SPCMCA. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- GMC/JA. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- OJAG. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 8.a. Are all convening and amending orders of courts to which charges were referred entered in the record? TC: X first box if yes, second box if no.
- SPCMCA. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- GMC/JA. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- OJAG. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 8.b. Are court members named in the convening orders, detailed military judge if any, counsel and the accused accounted for as present or absent? TC: X first box if yes, second box if no.
- SPCMCA. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- GMC/JA. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- OJAG. X first box if yes, second box if no.
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.
Instructions printed on the form or in not stated govern individual field entries. Where the two differ, the governing publication controls.
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.
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.
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.
Forms are reissued for several reasons: directive revision, changed data requirements, updated notice language. Confirming not stated at the moment of download covers the risk.
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 494?
- DD Form 494, Court-Martial Data Sheet, October 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?