DD Form 1705 occupies a particular place in Defense recordkeeping. Its title is DD Form 1705, Reimbursement for Real Estate Sale and/or Purchase Closing Cost Expenses, October 2002., and it exists to Reimbursement for Real Estate Sale and/or Purchase Closing Cost Expenses. 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 form is laid out top to bottom in a sequence that reflects how the record will be read, not merely how it was drawn. Identification comes first because everything below it is understood in relation to a named person, unit or transaction; substantive entries follow; certification closes the document because certification attests to what precedes it. Filling out of order tends to produce internal inconsistencies — an entry that made sense before the header was settled and does not afterward.
Before the first entry, compare the date printed on the form face with not stated. This is not bureaucratic fussiness. Editions change field numbering, and a receiving office working from the current layout may look for information where your copy does not put it. On a Department form the exposure is wider than usual: your record may be reviewed by an office in another service entirely, one with no reason to remember what the previous edition looked like.
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 62 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
- 21. Commission fee: expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 22. Advertising fee: expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 23. Appraisal fee: expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 24. Legal and related fees: expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 24. Legal and related fees: expense for new residence at new duty station.
- 25.a. Prepayment charge: expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 25.b. Lender's appraisal fee: expense for new residence at new duty station.
- 25.c. FHA or VA application fee: expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 25.c. FHA or VA application fee: expense for new residence at new duty station.
- 25.d. Certification fee: expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 25.d. Certification fee: expense for new residence at new duty station.
- 25.e. Credit report fee: expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 25.e. Credit report fee: expense for new residence at new duty station.
- 25.f. Mortgage title policy fee: expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 25. Mortgage title policy fee: expense for new residence at new duty station.
- 25.g. Escrow agent's fee: expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 25.g. Escrow agent's fee: expense for new residence at new duty station.
- 25.h. Tax stamps: expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 25.h. Tax stamps: expense for new residence at new duty station.
- 25.i. Expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 25.i. Expense for new residence at new duty station.
- 26. Other incidental expenses for former residence at old duty station.
- 26. Other incidental expenses for new residence at new duty station.
- 27. Total costs incurred for sale of former residence.
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.
Cross-referenced documents are found by series and number, with nothing further required. That the DD sequence is unified across the Department means a cited number identifies one form and no other, which is the practical payoff of centralizing the numbering in the first place.
It helps to see the DA and DD sequences as what they are: separate registries with separate custodians. One serves a single service under a service proponent, the other serves the Department under not stated or an equivalent office, and neither was ever indexed against the other. A number that appears in both systems points to two unrelated documents, which is why reading the prefix comes before reading the digits.
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.
What you have here is the document and a description of it, which is a different thing from guidance. This page is not an organ of the Department, gives no legal or procedural advice, and makes no representation about the outcome of any filing; the offices that administer the requirement are the only ones positioned to answer that. Applicability, eligibility and procedural questions belong to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1705?
- DD Form 1705, Reimbursement for Real Estate Sale and/or Purchase Closing Cost Expenses, October 2002.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?