DD Form 2706 occupies a particular place in Defense recordkeeping. Its title is DD Form 2706, Annual Report on Victim and Witness Assistance, March 2013, and it exists to Annual Report on Victim and Witness Assistance. 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.
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.
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.
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.
For an ambiguous field, read the form's own instruction, then not stated, which controls.
Download the form
Formats available: PDF, across 1 pages and about 22 fields.
Xfdl appears in the set for reasons of institutional inertia rather than preference. It is the IBM Lotus Forms format, once the Department's electronic forms standard and deployed widely enough that it outlived the decision to move on. IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or an equivalent client opens it; a pdf application will not.
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. Reporting office.
- b. To: December 31 (enter year).
- (2) Number of witnesses informed of their rights to assistance (DD Form 2701 upon initial contact).
- 3.a.(1) Number of crime victims informed of their rights to assistance (DD Form 2701 upon initial contact).
- b.(1) Number of crime victims informed of their consultation rights in courts-martial (DD Form 2702 upon referral to court-martial).
- c. (2) Number of witnesses informed of their right to be notified of changes in the prisoner's status in prison (escape, parole, death) (DD Form 2703 upon sentencing to confinement).
- c. (1) Number of crime victims informed of their right to be notified of changes in the prisoner's status in prison (escape, parole, death) (DD Form 2703 upon sentencing to confinement).
- d. (2) Number of witnesses who elected to be notified of prisoner status changes (DD Form 2704 once informed of their right to be notified of changes in the prisoner's status).
- d. (1) Number of crime victims who elected to be notified of prisoner status changes (DD Form 2704 once informed of their right to be notified of changes in the prisoner's status).
- 4. DD Forms 2705 sent upon status change: (1) Number of prisoner status changes.
- (2) Number of notification letters sent.
- 2. Reporting period. a. From: January 1 (enter year).
- 5. As of December 31 (enter year):
- (2) Navy.
- (3) Air Force.
- Cumulative report of total service prisoners that have required victim and witness notifications: (1) Army.
- (5) Coast Guard.
- (4) Marines.
- (6) Other.
- 6. DoD Component Responsible Official. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Signature.
- c. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
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.
When DD Form 2706 cites another form, the citation is self-sufficient. The DD series is a single sequence administered at Department level, so the number resolves to exactly one document without any need to establish which component issued it — a convenience that exists only because the sequence was never allowed to fork.
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.
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 2706?
- DD Form 2706, Annual Report on Victim and Witness Assistance, March 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?