Consider what a Department-level form is for. DD Form 1225 — DD Form 1225, Storage Quality Control Report, September 2001. — was established to Storage Quality Control Report, and it was placed in the DD sequence because the underlying transaction occurs throughout the Defense establishment in substantially the same shape. Standardizing the record was cheaper and more reliable than letting six services each design their own.
The practical effect of Department-level issue is interoperability. not stated establishes the requirement across the Defense enterprise; not stated keeps the document current for all of it. No service maintains its own variant, which means a completed record travels between components — service to agency, agency to joint command — and arrives in a format the receiving office already knows how to read.
You are looking for edition not stated, listed as not stated. Department-wide supersession is a single event rather than a rollout, which is what distinguishes edition currency on a DD form from the same question on a service publication: nobody anywhere is still accepting the previous version out of habit.
The sequence printed on the form is the sequence in which a reviewer will read it, and the two should agree. Header data frames every entry below it; the substantive fields depend on that frame; the certification stands at the end because its whole function is to vouch for what came before. Entries made out of sequence commonly contradict entries made earlier.
Verify the printed edition against not stated first. Field structure shifts between editions, and the office that receives your record is reading the current one. That office may sit outside your service, which removes even the informal accommodation you might expect from a colleague who used the old version last month.
For an ambiguous field, read the form's own instruction, then not stated, which controls.
Download the form
Formats available: PDF, across 1 pages and about 72 fields.
Every format is free, as published government documents are. A note on tools, though — the interactive field layer that makes a fillable pdf useful is precisely the part browser viewers handle least reliably. Save the file, open it in a full pdf reader, and the fields behave as the form's designer intended.
What the form asks for
- R I C.
- 1. Date generated: two digit day, three letter month, four digit year.
- 2. Report number.
- 3. Managing activity address.
- 4. Reporting activity or submitter address.
- 5. National stock number.
- 6. Type of inspection. Press space bar to mark X in first box if cyclic, second box if shelf life expiration, third box if special, fourth box if COSIS, fifth box if outbound shipment, or sixth box if other.
- 7. Nomenclature.
- 8. CAGE code and part or model number (if applicable).
- 9. Serial number (if applicable).
- 10. Condition code.
- 11. Lot/batch/control number.
- 12. Expiration date: Two digit month, four digit year.
- 13. Unit price.
- 14. Unit of issue.
- 15. Contractor considered liable? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 16. Contractor or Packed By, as applicable.
- 17. Contract number (when applicable).
- 18. Date of manufacture: two digit month, four digit year.
- 19.a. Date of pack: two digit month, four digit year.
- 19.b. Date of last COSIS inspection: two digit month, four digit year.
- 20. Method of preservation.
- 21. Level of packing. X first box if A, second box if B, or third box if minimum.
- 22. Condition of packing. X first box if satisfactory, second box if unsatisfactory.
Route the executed form as not stated or local guidance directs, and retain a duplicate first. Cross-component routing is ordinary for DD forms, which is precisely why a personal copy earns its keep: the receiving office may belong to an organization you have no standing to query about a missing document.
Forms referenced inside this one are located by number alone, and that simplicity is a direct product of Department-level numbering. Because the DD sequence is maintained centrally and not duplicated by service, a number is a complete address: one number, one document, throughout the Defense establishment.
Procedures that touch both Department and service processes will cite forms from both sequences, and the coincidence of numbers between them is exactly that — coincidence. An Army proponent maintains the DA series for the Army; not stated or another Department office maintains the DD series for the whole Department. Two independent registries, two independent numbering runs, no correspondence at any value.
Understanding why editions change explains why checking them is not optional. Revision follows directive reissue, changes in what data is required, and amendments to mandatory notice text — decisions made at Department level and communicated through publication rather than notification. The file you saved does not update itself, so the edition date at download is what you rely on.
A word on what this page is. It distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes what the document contains and how it is completed. It is not the issuing authority, does not speak for one, and offers no legal advice; nothing written here determines whether a particular submission will be accepted, because that determination belongs entirely to the office receiving it. Questions of applicability, eligibility or procedure go to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1225?
- DD Form 1225, Storage Quality Control Report, September 2001.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?