DD Form 2498 — DD Form 2498, Report of Dependents of Active Duty Military Personnel and Dependents of U.S. Citizen Civilian Employees, September 1999

Every entry in the Defense records system exists because some decision needed a documented basis, and DD Form 2498 is one of those instruments: DD Form 2498, Report of Dependents of Active Duty Military Personnel and Dependents of U.S. Citizen Civilian Employees, September 1999, created to Dependents of Active Duty Military Personnel and Dependents of US Citizen Civilian Employees, Report of. 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.

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a form, the replacement takes effect across every component simultaneously, so an older copy is not merely locally out of date — it is out of date in every office that might receive it.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.

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

• pdfDD Form 2498 — PDF2 pages

What you can download: PDF. The form runs 2 pages and asks for approximately 200 entries.

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

• Column 1, Command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Alaska.
• Column 2, Non command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Alaska.
• Column 3, Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Alaska.
• Column 4, Enter number of dependents of U S citizen civilian employees, total Alaska.
• Column 1, Command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Hawaii
• Column 2, Non command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Hawaii.
• Column 3, Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Hawaii.
• Column 4, Enter number of dependents of U S citizen civilian employees, total Hawaii.
• Column 1, Command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total U S Territories.
• Column 2, Non command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total U S Territories.
• Column 3, Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total U S Territories.
• Column 4, Enter number of dependents of U S citizen civilian employees, total U S Territories.
• Column 1, Command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total American Samoa.
• Column 2, Non command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total American Samoa.
• Column 3, Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total American Samoa.
• Column 4, Enter number of dependents of U S citizen civilian employees, total American Samoa.
• Column 1, Command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Guam.
• Column 2, Non command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Guam.
• Column 3, Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Guam.
• Column 4, Enter number of dependents of U S citizen civilian employees, total Guam.
• Column 1, Command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Johnston Atoll.
• Column 2, Non command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Johnston Atoll.
• Column 3, Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Johnston Atoll.
• Column 4, Enter number of dependents of U S citizen civilian employees, total Johnston Atoll.

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.

Understanding why editions change explains why checking them is not optional. Revision follows directive reissue, changes in what data is required, and amendments to mandatory notice text — decisions made at Department level and communicated through publication rather than notification. The file you saved does not update itself, so the edition date at download is what you rely on.

What you have here is the document and a description of it, which is a different thing from guidance. This page is not an organ of the Department, gives no legal or procedural advice, and makes no representation about the outcome of any filing; the offices that administer the requirement are the only ones positioned to answer that. Applicability, eligibility and procedural questions belong to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.

Questions and answers

What is DD Form 2498?

DD Form 2498, Report of Dependents of Active Duty Military Personnel and Dependents of U.S. Citizen Civilian Employees, September 1999

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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