Consider what a Department-level form is for. DD Form 1746 — DD Form 1746, Application for Assignment to Housing, September 1993. — was established to Application for Assignment to Housing, 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.
This is why the arrangement matters to you rather than only to the archivists. not stated governs the form throughout the Department, with not stated as the responsible office, so the record you create is legible outside your own component. Joint assignments, agency details and cross-service transactions all depend on that: the paperwork does not have to be reconstructed each time it crosses a boundary.
The edition in force is not stated, carried by the publisher as not stated, and edition discipline is stricter on a Department form than most people expect, precisely because supersession happens everywhere at once. There is no interval during which one service still works from the previous layout while another has moved on.
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.
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.
Download the form
What you can download: PDF. The form runs 2 pages and asks for approximately 90 entries.
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.
All of it downloads without charge. Where care is needed is in the reader you choose. A fillable pdf depends on field properties that desktop applications honour and browser previews frequently ignore, so work locally rather than inside a browser window.
What the form asks for
- 1. Type service desired. a. Press space bar to mark X if military housing.
- 1.b. Mark X if housing referral.
- Section 1 - Applicant information. 2. Name of sponsor: last, first, middle initial.
- 3. Pay grade.
- 4. Social security number (include dashes) or other identification number.
- 5. D O D component.
- 6. Address (Street, city, State, zip code).
- 7. Telephone number. a. Home (Include area code).
- b. Duty (DSN).
- 8. Status of applicant. X first box if military member, second box if military spouse, third box if civilian, or fourth box if foreign national.
- 9. Marital status.
- 10. I am separated from my dependents: X first box if voluntarily, second box if involuntarily.
- 11. I request housing for: X first box if self only, second box if self and dependents.
- 13. Installation/organization transferred to.
- 12. Installation/organization transferred from.
- 14.a. Military spouse: effective rank/rate date.
- Section 2 - Military career information (Civilians skip to Item 15). 14.a. Military applicant. Effective rank/rate date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- b. Active duty service computation date: military spouse.
- c. Time remaining on active duty: military applicant.
- c. Time remaining on active duty: military spouse.
- b. Active duty service computation date: military applicant.
- d. Date of effective change in duty station: military spouse.
- d. Date of effective change in duty station: military applicant.
- e. Report date: military spouse.
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.
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.
Where a service form is cited in the same instruction, the two numbering systems should not be read across. DA numbering belongs to the Army and is administered by an Army proponent; DD numbering belongs to the Department and is administered by not stated or an equivalent Department office. The systems developed separately and were never harmonized, so identical digits in each identify two documents with nothing in common. The prefix, not the number, tells you which system you are in.
Editions change for reasons that originate above the form itself. The prescribing directive is reissued and the form follows; the information the Department needs to collect changes and the fields change with it; the statutory notice language is amended and every form carrying that notice is republished. None of these events announces itself to the person who downloaded a copy last year, which is why confirming not stated at the moment of download is the only reliable check available to you.
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 1746?
- DD Form 1746, Application for Assignment to Housing, September 1993.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?