Every entry in the Defense records system exists because some decision needed a documented basis, and DD Form 2217 is one of those instruments: DD Form 2217, Biological Audiometer Calibration Check, January 2000, created to Biological Audiometer Calibration Check. The reason it carries a DD number rather than a service designation is structural — the Department maintains a single body of forms for matters that arise identically in every service, so that a record created in one component remains intelligible in another.
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.
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a form, the replacement takes effect across every component simultaneously, so an older copy is not merely locally out of date — it is out of date in every office that might receive it.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.
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
Formats available: PDF, across 2 pages and about 200 fields. That several formats coexist is a consequence of scale — the Department cannot standardize the software on every desk that needs this form, so it standardizes the document instead.
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.
What the form asks for
- 1. Audiometer. a. Manufacturer.
- b. Model.
- c. Serial number.
- d. Last electroacoustic calibration date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 2. Listener. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Facility.
- c. Location.
- 4. Hearing threshold levels of test frequencies. a. Baseline. (1) Left earphone. 500 Hz.(2) Right earphone. 500 Hz.
- 1000 Hz.
- 2000 Hz.
- 3000 Hz.
- 4000 Hz.
- 6000 Hz.
- 3. Dates and data review. Baseline. a. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- b. Name of examiner (last, first, middle initial).
- c. Calibration check. Press space bar to mark X in first box if pass (plus or minus 5 dB of baseline) or second box if fail (greater than plus or minus 5 dB of baseline).
- 4. Hearing threshold levels of test frequencies. a. Baseline. Enter hearing threshold levels in increments of 5 decibels. (1) Left earphone. 500 Hz.
- 1000 Hz.
- 2000 Hz.
- 3000 Hz.
- 4000 Hz.
- 6000 Hz.
- Periodic biological calibration checks. a. Date, line 1.
- b. Name of examiner.
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.
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 2217?
- DD Form 2217, Biological Audiometer Calibration Check, January 2000
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?