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Defense Department form, series DD, number 804-2. Full title: DD Form 804-2, Officer Recruiting Manpower Data, Jun 2000. Function: Officer Recruiting Manpower Data. Edition in force: not stated. Publisher 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.
Common users: service members regardless of branch, Defense civilian staff, and the offices that file, verify or retain the finished document.
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: 1 pages. Fillable field count: roughly 200.
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
- A. Component.
- B. Date reported (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- C. Fiscal years reported. From:
- Fiscal year to:
- Actuals: fiscal year.
- Appropriated (enlisted): fiscal year.
- Authorization: fiscal year.
- President's budget: fiscal year.
- President's budget: fiscal year.
- 1. Headquarters. a. Officer. Actual fiscal year. (1) End strength.
- (2) Work years.
- (3) Dollar amount (in thousands) without retirement.
- (4) Dollar amount with retirement.
- Appropriated (5) End strength.
- (6) Work years.
- (7) Dollar amount without retirement.
- (8) Dollar amount with retirement.
- Authorized: (9) End strength.
- (10) Work years.
- (11) Dollar amount without retirement.
- (12) Dollar amount with retirement.
- First President's budget year: (13) End strength.
- (14) Work years.
- (15) Dollar amount without retirement.
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.
Field-level instructions appear on the form itself and in not stated. The directive is the controlling text.
The completed document moves to the office named in not stated or in local guidance. A retained copy is conventional practice.
Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 804-2 is normally found by its number alone, without regard to service.
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.
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 804-2?
- DD Form 804-2, Officer Recruiting Manpower Data, Jun 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?