DD Form 1299 occupies a particular place in Defense recordkeeping. Its title is DD 1299, Application for Shipment and/or Storage of Personal Property, September 1998, and it exists to Application for Shipment and/or Storage of Personal Property. What the DD prefix records is an administrative judgment made long before your copy was printed: this transaction was determined to be common to the whole Department rather than peculiar to one service, and so the documentation of it was standardized at Department level.
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.
Where a specific field is genuinely unclear, the instructions printed on the form come first and not stated governs where the two do not agree.
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The set published here is PDF, covering 2 pages with roughly 61 fields.
If you find an xfdl file here, its presence is historical. The format belongs to IBM Lotus Forms, which the Department adopted Department-wide for electronic forms and fielded on a scale that makes wholesale removal slow. You need the matching viewer to open it; ordinary pdf software cannot read the format and will say so unhelpfully.
Nothing here is charged for. Published Defense forms are public documents and distribution carries no fee, in any format. One caution about software: fill the form in a desktop pdf application rather than a browser tab. Browser-embedded viewers implement field behaviour inconsistently, and the failure mode is silent loss of everything you entered.
What the form asks for
- 1. Date prepared (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 2. Shipment number.
- 3. Name of preparing office.
- 4. To (Responsible Origin Personal Property Shipping Office). a. Name.
- b. Address (Street, Suite Number, City, State, ZIP Code).
- 5. Name of destination personal property shipping office.
- 6. Member or employee information. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Rank/grade.
- c. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- d. Agency.
- 7. Request action be taken to transport or store the following: a. Household goods/unaccompanied baggage/items/no. of containers (quantity estimate): (1) Pounds.
- (2) Pounds of professional books, papers and equipment (or "none" if not applicable).
- (3) Expensive and valuable items (number of cartons).
- b. Mobile home information. (1) Serial number.
- (2) Length (dimensions in feet and inches).
- (3) Width (dimensions in feet and inches).
- (4) Height (dimensions in feet and inches).
- (5) Type expando (describe).
- c. Mobile home services requested. X if contents packed.
- X if mobile home blocked.
- X if mobile home unblocked.
- X if stored at origin.
- X if stored at destination.
- 8. This shipment/storage is required incident to the following change of station orders: a. Type of orders. X first box if permanent, second box if temporary.
The completed form goes to the office named in not stated or in local implementing procedure, and it is worth keeping a copy before it goes. On a Department form the destination is frequently outside your own chain — another service, a defense agency, a joint staff — and recovering a document that has crossed an organizational boundary is a slower business than retrieving one from a file down the hall.
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.
A form is downstream of the policy that requires it, and revision usually starts there: a directive is reissued, a collection requirement is altered, notice language is updated by statute. The form is republished as a consequence. Since none of that reaches individual users, an archived copy quietly becomes wrong, and verifying not stated each time you download is the whole remedy.
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 1299?
- DD 1299, Application for Shipment and/or Storage of Personal Property, September 1998
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?