Consider what a Department-level form is for. DD Form 2715-3 — DD Form 2715-3, Prisoner Restoration/Return to Duty, Clemency and Parole Statement, March 2013 — was established to Prisoner Restoration/Return to Duty, Clemency and Parole Statement, 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.
The practical effect of Department-level issue is interoperability. not stated establishes the requirement across the Defense enterprise; not stated keeps the document current for all of it. No service maintains its own variant, which means a completed record travels between components — service to agency, agency to joint command — and arrives in a format the receiving office already knows how to read.
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.
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.
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
Formats available: PDF, across 2 pages and about 47 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
- Report date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no separators).
- 1. Prisoner name (last, first, middle).
- 2. DoD Identification number or Social security number (last 4 only).
- 3. Correctional facility.
- Section 1 - Restoration/Return to duty. Press space bar to mark X in first box if requests restoration/return, or second box if does not request.
- Section 2 - Clemency. 6. Mark X if waiving right to be considered for clemency.
- 7. I hereby request to be considered for clemency in the following form(s): Mark X if reduction in length of sentence.
- Mark X if reduction or remission of forfeitures.
- Mark X if reduction or remission of fine.
- Mark X if substitution of administrative discharge for punitive discharge.
- Mark X if remission of dismissal (officers and cadets only).
- Mark X if mitigation of a Dishonorable Discharge to a Bad Conduct Discharge.
- Mark X if restoration to pay grade.
- Enter pay grade if applicable.
- Mark X if restoration of precedence (officers only).
- 8. My reasons for requesting clemency are as follows:
- 9. Prisoner/supervisee signature.
- 10. Witness signature.
- 11. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 12. Certification. a. Certifying official (name, grade and title).
- Signature of certifying official.
- Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Section 3 - Parole. 13. Under regulation I become eligible for parole consideration on: (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 14. Mark X in first box if desire, or second box if do not desire, to be considered for parole.
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.
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.
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 2715-3?
- DD Form 2715-3, Prisoner Restoration/Return to Duty, Clemency and Parole Statement, 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?