Consider what a Department-level form is for. DD Form 2767 — DD Form 2767, JROTC Instructor Annual Certification of Pay and Data Form, September 2007 — was established to Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) Instructor Annual Certification of Pay and Data, 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.
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a form, the replacement takes effect across every component simultaneously, so an older copy is not merely locally out of date — it is out of date in every office that might receive it.
The sequence printed on the form is the sequence in which a reviewer will read it, and the two should agree. Header data frames every entry below it; the substantive fields depend on that frame; the certification stands at the end because its whole function is to vouch for what came before. Entries made out of sequence commonly contradict entries made earlier.
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.
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
What you can download: PDF. The form runs 1 pages and asks for approximately 24 entries. The plurality of formats is deliberate: Defense distribution has never been able to assume one operating environment across the whole force.
Fillable and printable are not two presentations of one file but two different objects. One holds your entries as structured data within the document; the other is a static picture meant to meet a pen. Since a DD form frequently moves outside the organization that created it, the durability of the entry matters more here than on a record that stays in one drawer. Typed text reproduces indefinitely; handwriting degrades at every copy.
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
- 1. Instructor name (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. DoD ID number.
- 3. Sex. Press space bar to mark X in first box if female, second box if male.
- 4. Status. X first box if new, second box if return, third box if retire/resign.
- 5. Branch of service retired from. Press space bar to mark X in first box if Army, second box if Air Force, third box if Navy, fourth box if Marines, or fifth box if Coast Guard.
- 6. Retired grade.
- 7.a. Name and address of school (include zip code).
- New address? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- b. School/unit identification number.
- 8.a. Name and address of school district (include zip code).
- New address? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- b. District identification or area number.
- 9. Current school year dates of work for JROTC (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day): a. From.
- b. To.
- 10. Upcoming employment period dates of work (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day): a. Beginning.
- b. To.
- 11. School official. a. Typed name (last, first, middle initial).
- 11.b. Title.
- 11.c. Telephone number (include area code).
- 11.d. Signature.
- e. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 12. Instructor Certification. a. Instructor Signature.
- b. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
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.
Where a service form is cited in the same instruction, the two numbering systems should not be read across. DA numbering belongs to the Army and is administered by an Army proponent; DD numbering belongs to the Department and is administered by not stated or an equivalent Department office. The systems developed separately and were never harmonized, so identical digits in each identify two documents with nothing in common. The prefix, not the number, tells you which system you are in.
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 2767?
- DD Form 2767, JROTC Instructor Annual Certification of Pay and Data Form, September 2007
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?