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DD Form 870 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD Form 870, Request for Fiscal Information Concerning Transportation Requests, February 1987.. Stated purpose: Request for Fiscal Information Concerning Transportation Requests, Bill of Landing and Meal Tickets. Edition date 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.
When the form is filed is a matter of not stated and local instruction. The description here covers the document itself and how to obtain a copy.
Available formats: PDF. The form runs 1 pages and contains approximately 32 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
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- Date.
- Section A- Document Description. 1. D.O. Voucher number.
- 2. D.O. or Accounting Date.
- 3. Transportation Request Number (include prefix).
- 4. Bill of Lading Number (include prefix).
- 5. Meal ticket number (include prefix).
- 6. Amount.
- 7. To.
- 8. Accounting Classification (include station number).
- 9. Fiscal Officer. a. Typed name.
- 9.b. Grade.
- Section B - Information requested on document described above. 10. Press space bar to mark X if appropriate: Issuing office.
- 10. Complete name and address of issuing office and/or officer (include zip code).
- 11. Mark X if appropriate: Accounting Classification.
- 11. Accounting Classification (include station number).
- 12. Address.
- 13. Mark X if: Traveler or Items Shipped.
- 13. Traveler or items shipped.
- 14. Mark X if: Authority for Shipment or Travel.
- 15. Mark X if Other.
- 14. Authority for Shipment or Travel (special order number, contract number, etc.).
- 15. Other information requested.
- 16. Film number.
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.
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.
The signature block takes an actual signature. On paper this means ink; electronically it means a credentialed digital signature, commonly CAC-based. Typed text in a signature field satisfies neither.
Where personal information is collected, a Privacy Act Statement appears on or with the form. It names the collection authority, the purpose, the routine uses of the data and the consequence of withholding it. Reading it precedes filling the form.
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.
Field-level instructions appear on the form itself and in not stated. The directive is the controlling text.
After completion, the copy goes to the office designated by not stated or by local procedure. Retention of a personal copy is ordinary practice and costs nothing.
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.
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.
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 870?
- DD Form 870, Request for Fiscal Information Concerning Transportation Requests, February 1987.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?