Military Forms Guide

DD Form 2041 — DD Form 2041, Rating Comparison Worksheet, September 76

Rating Comparison Worksheet

DD Form 2041 occupies a particular place in Defense recordkeeping. Its title is DD Form 2041, Rating Comparison Worksheet, September 76, and it exists to Rating Comparison Worksheet. 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.

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.

For an ambiguous field, read the form's own instruction, then not stated, which controls.

Download the form

The set published here is PDF, covering 1 pages with roughly 60 fields. More than one format survives because the Department serves users under very different conditions, from a desk with current software to a location where a printer is the only reliable output.

The difference between a fillable and a printable pdf is a difference in what the file contains. A fillable release carries an interactive layer: each box is a defined field with a name and a data type, and what you type is stored as data inside the document. A printable release has no such layer — it is an image of the page, and the only place your answers can go is onto paper. The distinction matters downstream, because a Department record often gets scanned and forwarded several times before it reaches its final file, and typed characters survive that chain in a way pen strokes do not.

What the form asks for

  • 6.a. RATING OF ACTIVITY IN PERCENT. Enter RATING of STUDENT ACTIVITY IN PERCENT.
  • 6.b. Enter RATING of ACTUAL ACTIVITY IN PERCENT.
  • 6.a. RATING OF ACTIVITY IN PERCENT. Enter RATING of STUDENT ACTIVITY IN PERCENT.
  • 6.b. Enter RATING of ACTUAL ACTIVITY IN PERCENT.
  • 6.a. RATING OF ACTIVITY IN PERCENT. Enter RATING of STUDENT ACTIVITY IN PERCENT.
  • 6.b. Enter RATING of ACTUAL ACTIVITY IN PERCENT.
  • 6.a. RATING OF ACTIVITY IN PERCENT. Enter RATING of STUDENT ACTIVITY IN PERCENT.
  • 6.b. Enter RATING of ACTUAL ACTIVITY IN PERCENT.
  • 6.a. RATING OF ACTIVITY IN PERCENT. Enter RATING of STUDENT ACTIVITY IN PERCENT.
  • 6.b. Enter RATING of ACTUAL ACTIVITY IN PERCENT.
  • 6.a. RATING OF ACTIVITY IN PERCENT. Enter RATING of STUDENT ACTIVITY IN PERCENT.
  • 6.b. Enter RATING of ACTUAL ACTIVITY IN PERCENT.
  • 6.a. RATING OF ACTIVITY IN PERCENT. Enter RATING of STUDENT ACTIVITY IN PERCENT.
  • 6.b. Enter RATING of ACTUAL ACTIVITY IN PERCENT.
  • 6.c. VARIANCE. Result of Deviation of RATING of STUDENT ACTIVITY IN PERCENT to RATING of ACTUAL ACTIVITY IN PERCENT is automatically entered in this field.
  • 6.a. RATING OF ACTIVITY IN PERCENT. Enter RATING of STUDENT ACTIVITY IN PERCENT.
  • 6.b. Enter RATING of ACTUAL ACTIVITY IN PERCENT.
  • 6.c. VARIANCE. Result of Deviation of RATING of STUDENT ACTIVITY IN PERCENT to RATING of ACTUAL ACTIVITY IN PERCENT is automatically entered in this field.
  • 6.a. RATING OF ACTIVITY IN PERCENT. Enter RATING of STUDENT ACTIVITY IN PERCENT.
  • 6.b. Enter RATING of ACTUAL ACTIVITY IN PERCENT.
  • 6.c. VARIANCE. Result of Deviation of RATING of STUDENT ACTIVITY IN PERCENT to RATING of ACTUAL ACTIVITY IN PERCENT is automatically entered in this field.
  • 6.a. RATING OF ACTIVITY IN PERCENT. Enter RATING of STUDENT ACTIVITY IN PERCENT.
  • 6.b. Enter RATING of ACTUAL ACTIVITY IN PERCENT.
  • 6.c. VARIANCE. Result of Deviation of RATING of STUDENT ACTIVITY IN PERCENT to RATING of ACTUAL ACTIVITY IN PERCENT is automatically entered in this field.

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.

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.

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.

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 2041?
DD Form 2041, Rating Comparison Worksheet, September 76
Which edition is current?
Not stated by the publisher
Who is responsible for this form?
Not stated
In which formats can it be downloaded?
PDF

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