Consider what a Department-level form is for. DD Form 2708 — DD Form 2708, Receipt for Pre-trial/Post-trial Prisoner or Detained Person, March 2013 — was established to Receipt for Pre-Trial/Post Trial Prisoner or Detained Person, 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.
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.
Check the edition date before you type anything, against not stated. Old blanks accumulate in shared drives for years, and the cost of one is not obvious until a reviewer cannot find a field. Because DD forms are revised centrally and replaced across the Department in a single action, there is no component still tolerating the old layout as a local practice.
For an ambiguous field, read the form's own instruction, then not stated, which controls.
Download the form
The set published here is PDF, covering 1 pages with roughly 22 fields.
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.a. Received from (Unit/agency).
- c. Time.
- d. Prisoner name (last, first, middle).
- e. Registration number/social security number (last 4 digits only).
- f. Grade.
- g. Branch.
- 2. Type of confinement. Press space bar to mark X if pre-trial.
- X if post-trial.
- X if under custody.
- 4. Purpose of transfer (reason for temporary release).
- 5. Status of personal property (where prisoner's personal property is located: unit supply room, personal storage facility, home of record, etc.).
- 3. Offenses/charges or UCMJ articles violated (list article number(s) and specific charges associated with each).
- 6. Remarks (noteworthy information about prisoner's health, behavior etc. that will assist).
- 7. Receipt for person/prisoner. a. Name, grade, title.
- b. Social security number (last 4 digits only).
- c. Grade.
- d. Unit/agency.
- b. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- b. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- i. Duty station.
- h. Installation.
- e. Signature.
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.
Cross-referenced documents are found by series and number, with nothing further required. That the DD sequence is unified across the Department means a cited number identifies one form and no other, which is the practical payoff of centralizing the numbering in the first place.
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 2708?
- DD Form 2708, Receipt for Pre-trial/Post-trial Prisoner or Detained Person, 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?