DD Form 1829 occupies a particular place in Defense recordkeeping. Its title is DD Form 1829, Record of Military Dog Physical Examination, October 1971., and it exists to Record of Military Dog Physical Examination. 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.
That decision has consequences you will notice. Because not stated prescribes the form for the Department as a whole, and not stated maintains it on the Department's behalf, the same blank passes between the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps, the Space Force, the Coast Guard when operating under Defense jurisdiction, the defense agencies and the combatant commands without translation. A clerk in one component reads a record created in another and finds the fields where they expect them.
Current edition: not stated, status not stated. Understand why that date is worth attention here. When the Department reissues a form, the replacement takes effect across every component simultaneously, so an older copy is not merely locally out of date — it is out of date in every office that might receive it.
Work down the page in the printed order, and understand why the order exists. The identifying block establishes whose record this is and under what circumstances it arises. The body of the form then answers questions that are only meaningful once that context is fixed. The signature block comes last because a certification signed before the entries are complete certifies nothing.
Check the edition date before you type anything, against not stated. Old blanks accumulate in shared drives for years, and the cost of one is not obvious until a reviewer cannot find a field. Because DD forms are revised centrally and replaced across the Department in a single action, there is no component still tolerating the old layout as a local practice.
For an ambiguous field, read the form's own instruction, then not stated, which controls.
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Formats available: PDF, across 2 pages and about 74 fields.
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What the form asks for
- Section 3 - Laboratory and radiographic procedures. 39. Check those procedures performed as part of this examination. Mark X if WBC.
- Mark X if Other chemistry.
- Mark X if Other lab procedures.
- Mark X if Hematocrit.
- Mark X if Urinalysis.
- Mark X if Pelvic radiograph.
- Mark X if Hemoglobin.
- Mark X if Microfilaria.
- Mark X if Other radiographs.
- Mark X if B U N.
- Mark X if Fecal.
- Section 1 - General. 1. Military dog unit (name and address).
- 3. Date of examination.
- 4. Examining facility and address.
- 2. Name of animal and tattoo number.
- 5. Purpose of examination. Press space bar to mark X in first box if semiannual, second box if PCS, or third box if other.
- If other, specify.
- 6. Breed.
- 7. Color.
- 8. Sex.
- 8. Age (months - years).
- Immunizations (most recent date only). 10. Rabies.
- 11. Distemper.
- 12. Hepatitis.
Submission follows not stated and whatever local instruction supplements it. Make a copy before the original leaves. Department forms travel across organizational lines by design, and the administrative distance that makes them useful is the same distance that makes tracing a lost one difficult.
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.
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.
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 1829?
- DD Form 1829, Record of Military Dog Physical Examination, October 1971.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?