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Department of Defense form 844. Official designation: DD Form 844, Requisition for Local Duplicating Service, February 1989. Purpose: Requisition For< Local Duplicating Service. 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.
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.
The download set covers PDF. Document length is 1 pages with about 42 entry fields.
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.
An xfdl file is provided as well. Xfdl is the IBM Lotus Forms format, historically standard across Defense form distribution, and it requires IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or an equivalent reader; ordinary pdf software will not open it.
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
- 1. Date of Request (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day)
- 3. Job number.
- Part A. Request (To be completed by requestor) 4. Requesting Office. a. Organization Name.
- b. Building.
- c. Room number.
- 5. Delivery Instructions. a. Deliver to.
- d. For reference consult: (1) Name.
- (2) Telephone number.
- b. Person to call if to be picked up: (1) Name.
- (2) Telephone number.
- 6. Description of job. a. Appropriation chargeable.
- b. Title, form number, etc.
- c. Classification. Press space bar to mark X in first box if classified, second box if unclassified, or third box if other.
- If other, specify.
- d. Number of originals.
- e. Number of copies each.
- f. Disposition of originals. X first box if return, second box if destroy.
- 7. Specifications. a. Type reproduction. X first box if Xerographic, second box if offset, third box if other.
- If other, specify.
- b. Print. X first box if one side, second box if head to head, third box if head to foot, or fourth box if other.
- If other, specify.
- c. Finished size. X first box if 8-1/2 x 11 (letter), or second box if other.
- If other, specify.
- d. Paper. X first box if white, second box if other.
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.
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.
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 844 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.
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 844?
- DD Form 844, Requisition for Local Duplicating Service, February 1989
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?