Every entry in the Defense records system exists because some decision needed a documented basis, and DD Form 2669 is one of those instruments: DD Form 2669, Destruction Schedule for Currency, August 1993., created to Destruction Schedule for Currency. 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.
The edition in force is not stated, carried by the publisher as not stated, and edition discipline is stricter on a Department form than most people expect, precisely because supersession happens everywhere at once. There is no interval during which one service still works from the previous layout while another has moved on.
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.
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.
Fill all of it, marking inapplicable items N/A. A record with gaps cannot later demonstrate whether the gap was a decision or an oversight, which is exactly the ambiguity documentation exists to remove. Dates go in the form's own format — on a document that crosses service lines, an ambiguous date is a real hazard rather than a pedantic one.
Understand what the Privacy Act Statement is doing on the page. It exists because collecting personal data from an individual triggers a duty to explain the collection: under what authority, for what purpose, to whom the information may routinely go, and whether you are obliged to answer. That explanation precedes the fields for the obvious reason — afterwards it is merely a notice, beforehand it is a basis for deciding.
Signature is the point at which a completed form becomes a certification, and the requirement follows from that. On paper it means ink in the designated block; electronically it means a credentialed digital signature, ordinarily applied with a Common Access Card in software that supports it. A name typed into the signature field is data, not an act — it demonstrates nothing about who entered it. The date beside the signature fixes when the certification was made, which is why a signed but undated block is treated as incomplete.
Every item on the standing defect list undermines the record in the same way — it leaves a question the file cannot answer later. Obsolete edition, empty mandatory boxes, illegible scanned handwriting, non-conforming dates, missing signature or date. Unclear entries are resolved from the printed instructions first and from not stated where the two texts diverge.
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Formats available: PDF, across 1 pages and about 158 fields.
If you find an xfdl file here, its presence is historical. The format belongs to IBM Lotus Forms, which the Department adopted Department-wide for electronic forms and fielded on a scale that makes wholesale removal slow. You need the matching viewer to open it; ordinary pdf software cannot read the format and will say so unhelpfully.
Nothing here is charged for. Published Defense forms are public documents and distribution carries no fee, in any format. One caution about software: fill the form in a desktop pdf application rather than a browser tab. Browser-embedded viewers implement field behaviour inconsistently, and the failure mode is silent loss of everything you entered.
What the form asks for
- Number 4. Line 1. Enter the inclusive serial numbers. New Notes Only.
- Number 4. Line 1. Enter the net amount of $1.00 bills being destroyed.
- Number 4. Line 1. Enter the net amount of $5.00 bills being destroyed.
- Number 4. Line 1. Enter the net amount of $10.00 bills being destroyed.
- Number 4. Line 1. Enter the net amount of $20.00 bills being destroyed.
- Number 4. Line 1. Enter the net amount of $50.00 bills being destroyed.
- Number 4. Line 1. Enter the net amount of $100.00 bills being destroyed.
- Number 4. Enter the net total amount for Line 1, being destroyed.
- Number 4. Line 2. Enter the inclusive serial numbers. New Notes Only.
- Number 4. Line 2. Enter the net amount of $1.00 bills being destroyed.
- Number 4. Line 2. Enter the net amount of $5.00 bills being destroyed.
- Number 4. Line 2. Enter the net amount of $10.00 bills being destroyed.
- Number 4. Line 2. Enter the net amount of $20.00 bills being destroyed.
- Number 4. Line 2. Enter the net amount of $50.00 bills being destroyed.
- Number 4. Line 2. Enter the net amount of $100.00 bills being destroyed.
- Number 4. Enter the net total amount for Line 2, being destroyed.
- Number 4. Line 3. Enter the inclusive serial numbers. New Notes Only.
- Number 4. Line 3. Enter the net amount of $1.00 bills being destroyed.
- Number 4. Line 3. Enter the net amount of $5.00 bills being destroyed.
- Number 4. Line 3. Enter the net amount of $10.00 bills being destroyed.
- Number 4. Line 3. Enter the net amount of $20.00 bills being destroyed.
- Number 4. Line 3. Enter the net amount of $50.00 bills being destroyed.
- Number 4. Line 3. Enter the net amount of $100.00 bills being destroyed.
- Number 4. Enter the net total amount for Line 3, being destroyed.
The completed form goes to the office named in not stated or in local implementing procedure, and it is worth keeping a copy before it goes. On a Department form the destination is frequently outside your own chain — another service, a defense agency, a joint staff — and recovering a document that has crossed an organizational boundary is a slower business than retrieving one from a file down the hall.
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.
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 2669?
- DD Form 2669, Destruction Schedule for Currency, August 1993.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?