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Defense Department form, series DD, number 567. Full title: DD Form 567, Record of Search and Recovery, August 2015. Function: Record of Search and Recovery. Edition in force: not stated. Publisher 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.
Submission follows the schedule set by not stated and by local implementing procedures. This page provides the blank form for download and general orientation only.
Available formats: PDF. The form runs 1 pages and contains approximately 62 fillable 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
- 1. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 2. Decedent. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- c. Social security or DoD ID number.
- d. Organization.
- 3. Type of search.
- 4. Date of mission (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 5. Search and recovery number.
- 6. Date of recovery (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 8. Place of recovery.
- 9. Identification media found in grave and or surrounding area, include serial numbers found on vehicles, tanks, aircraft and weapons.
- 12. Team Leader. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- c. Organization.
- e. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 13. Receiving official. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- c. Organization.
- e. Date Signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- b. Grade.
- 7. CBRNE statement attached: X first box if yes, second if no.
- 10. Other remains recovered on this mission. Use continuation sheet if necessary. a. Search and recovery number, line 1.
- Search and recovery number, line 4.
- Search and recovery number, line 5.
- Search and recovery number, line 6.
- Search and recovery number, line 7.
- Search and recovery number, line 8.
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.
The current edition is not stated. Superseded editions of DD forms are frequently rejected at the receiving office, since Department-wide forms change centrally and older layouts lose their field correspondence. Edition date appears in the lower corner of the printed blank.
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.
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.
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.
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 567?
- DD Form 567, Record of Search and Recovery, August 2015
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?