Consider what a Department-level form is for. DD Form 2342 — DD Form 2342, Animal Facility Sanitation Checklist, August 2013 — was established to Animal Facility Sanitation Checklist, 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.
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.
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.
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 1 pages and asks for approximately 27 entries.
Every format is free, as published government documents are. A note on tools, though — the interactive field layer that makes a fillable pdf useful is precisely the part browser viewers handle least reliably. Save the file, open it in a full pdf reader, and the fields behave as the form's designer intended.
What the form asks for
- 1. Date of inspection (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 2. Area.
- 4. Name and rank of facility supervisor (last, first, middle initial).
- 5. Name and rank of veterinary inspector (last, first, middle initial).
- 3. Building number.
- Section I - Sanitary inspection. 1. Premises. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 2. Stalls/kennels. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 3. Tack/equipment rooms. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 4. Feed quality and storage. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 5. Water troughs/pans. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 6. Animal waste disposal. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 7. Trash disposal. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 8. Insect and rodent control. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 9. Quarantine and isolation area. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 10. Equipment. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 11. Water supply. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 12. Pastures/training areas. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 13. Remarks and recommendations.
- Section II - Animal preventive health measures. 1. Condition/grooming. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 2. Personnel training. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 3. Feed and water schedule. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 4. Quarantine measures. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 5. Required vaccinations. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
- 6. Safety measures. X first box if satisfactory, second if unsatisfactory, or fourth if not applicable.
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.
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.
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.
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 2342?
- DD Form 2342, Animal Facility Sanitation Checklist, August 2013
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?