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Department of Defense form 730. Official designation: DD Form 730, Receipt for Unused Transportation Requests or Tickets, including Unused Meal Tickets, November 1984.. Purpose: Receipt for Unused Transportation Requests and/or Tickets, Including Unused Meal Tickets. 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.
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.
The download set covers PDF. Document length is 1 pages with about 108 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.
The xfdl release corresponds to IBM Lotus Forms. This format carried Department-wide form distribution for years and opens only in IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible client, not in a pdf reader.
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
- 3.a.11. Points between which unused, if punched.
- 3.a. 13. Baggage, if ticket punched. Number of pieces checked, line 1
- Approximate weight of baggage, line 1
- 3.a.12. Reasons for return or nonuse: Return of pullman tickets. Mark X if coach class used.
- Mark X if own accommodations purchased.
- New T R issued.
- pieces checked, line 2
- approximate weight, line 2
- pieces checked, line 3
- approximate weight, line 3
- Nonuse of parlor or sleeping car requests: mark X if coach class used.
- Mark X if own accommodations purchased.
- New T R issued.
- Part E. Authority for Issuance. 1. Authority.
- 2. Date
- 3. P A
- 4. Installation.
- Part C. Meal Tickets. Unused meal ticket numbers.
- Column 5, From, line 1
- column 6, To, line 1
- Column 1, Name of Issuing Carrier, line 1.
- column 2, ticket form and number, line 1
- column 3, issued for type of transportation or accommodations, line 1
- Column 4, class, line 1
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.
Signature is manual ink on printed copies and digital where the receiving system accepts it. A typed name in a signature field is a name, not a signature. Common Access Card credentials support digital signature in pdf where the form and the reader permit.
Privacy Act notice: DD forms that collect personal data carry a Privacy Act Statement stating the authority for collection, the principal purpose, routine uses and whether disclosure is voluntary or mandatory. The statement is part of the form and should be read before entry, not after.
Errors seen most often involve edition mismatch, empty mandatory fields, illegibility after scanning, date formats inconsistent with the printed instruction, and unsigned or undated certification.
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.
Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 730 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.
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 730?
- DD Form 730, Receipt for Unused Transportation Requests or Tickets, including Unused Meal Tickets, November 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?