DD Form 1799 occupies a particular place in Defense recordkeeping. Its title is DD Form 1799, Member's Report on Carrier Performance - Mobile Home, September 1998, and it exists to Member's Report on Carrier Performance - Mobile Homes. 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.
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 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.
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.
For an ambiguous field, read the form's own instruction, then not stated, which controls.
Download the form
What you can download: PDF. The form runs 1 pages and asks for approximately 32 entries. The plurality of formats is deliberate: Defense distribution has never been able to assume one operating environment across the whole force.
Two states of the same page circulate, and the reason is worth knowing. In the fillable pdf, the boxes are real fields holding real data; in the printable pdf, the boxes are drawings. Where a record will cross components — as Department records regularly do — the typed version is the safer artifact. Each scan, each forwarding, each reproduction costs handwriting a little legibility, and the office that finally files the record is rarely the office that received it first.
Xfdl appears in the set for reasons of institutional inertia rather than preference. It is the IBM Lotus Forms format, once the Department's electronic forms standard and deployed widely enough that it outlived the decision to move on. IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or an equivalent client opens it; a pdf application will not.
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
- Section I - to be completed by destination ITO. 1. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 2. Required Delivery Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 3. Government Bill of Lading Number.
- 4.a. Name of Member (last, first, middle initial).
- 4.b. Grade.
- 5. Name of Carrier.
- 6. Origin Installation.
- 7. Pickup address (street, apartment number, city, state, zip code).
- Press space bar to mark X in first box if trailer court, second box if storage facility.
- 8. Destination Installation
- Section II - To be completed by member. 9. Did the carrier pick up the mobile home on the agreed date? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 10. Did the carrier provide all the required services? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 11. Was the mobile home offered for delivery on or before the required delivery date? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 12. Was the mobile home and its contents delivered without loss or damage? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 12. If no, estimated value of loss and/or damage.
- 13. Was the carrier cooperative in checking the condition of your mobile home upon delivery? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 14. Did the carrier provide you a completed mobile home inspection record at origin? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 15. Did you consider the carrier personnel: a. Courteous? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- b. Cooperative? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- c. Neat in appearance? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 16. Were you satisfied with the carrier's services on this movement of your mobile home at: a. Origin? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- b. Destination? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 17. Were the Transportation Office personnel courteous and helpful to you? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 18. Comments. Briefly explain all "No" answers.
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.
When DD Form 1799 cites another form, the citation is self-sufficient. The DD series is a single sequence administered at Department level, so the number resolves to exactly one document without any need to establish which component issued it — a convenience that exists only because the sequence was never allowed to fork.
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.
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.
The role of this page is narrow and worth stating plainly. It makes a published Defense form available and explains its structure. It does not advise, does not interpret policy for your circumstances, and cannot indicate how any office will treat a completed copy — those judgments rest with the authorities that own the process. Direct such questions to not stated, to the administrative office that services you, or to the authority named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1799?
- DD Form 1799, Member's Report on Carrier Performance - Mobile Home, 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?