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Defense Department form, series DD, number 785. Full title: DD Form 785, Record of Disenrollment from Officer Candidate-Type Training, June 1968. Function: Officer Candidate-Type Training, Record of Disenrollment from. Edition in force: not stated. Publisher 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.
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.
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.
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
- Section 3 - Reasons and circumstances for disenrollment.
- Date submitted.
- To: (Appropriate agency of the service concerned) (Include Zip Code).
- From: (Appropriate agency of the service concerned) (Include Zip Code).
- Section 1. Identification information on student at time disenrolled. 1. Last Name - first name - middle initial.
- 3. Branch of Armed Forces.
- 4. File or service number.
- 5. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 6.a. Birth date.
- 6.b. Birth place.
- 7. Sex.
- 2. Rate or grade.
- 8. Home of record address.
- 9. Other address.
- Section 2 - Program information applicable at time disenrolled. 10. Training station address.
- 11. Type of program (OCS, ROTC, Academy, NavCad, etc.)
- 12. Specific type of training (Supply, Pilot training, Bombardier, Infantry, Artillery, etc.).
- 13. Date entered program.
- 14. Date disenrolled.
- 15. Date scheduled for commission (If training had been completed successfully).
- Section 4 - Evaluation to be considered for future acceptability for other officer training. Press space bar to mark X in first box if highly recommended, second box if recommended as average candidate, third box if only if needs of service outweigh reasons for disenrollment, fourth box if recommended if physical defects corrected, or fifth box if not recommended.
- 6. X if other remarks apply.
- Remarks.
- Typed name and grade.
Order of completion: identification block first, substantive entries second, certification and signature last. The blank is laid out in that sequence and the sequence is not arbitrary — later entries often depend on data established in the header.
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.
Guidance for specific entries sits on the form face and in not stated; the directive is authoritative where the two do not agree.
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 785 is normally found by its number alone, without regard to service.
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 785?
- DD Form 785, Record of Disenrollment from Officer Candidate-Type Training, June 1968
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?