Every entry in the Defense records system exists because some decision needed a documented basis, and DD Form 2768 is one of those instruments: DD Form 2768, Military Air Passenger and or Cargo Request, March 1998., created to Military Air Passenger/Cargo Request. 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.
That decision has consequences you will notice. Because not stated prescribes the form for the Department as a whole, and not stated maintains it on the Department's behalf, the same blank passes between the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps, the Space Force, the Coast Guard when operating under Defense jurisdiction, the defense agencies and the combatant commands without translation. A clerk in one component reads a record created in another and finds the fields where they expect them.
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.
The form is laid out top to bottom in a sequence that reflects how the record will be read, not merely how it was drawn. Identification comes first because everything below it is understood in relation to a named person, unit or transaction; substantive entries follow; certification closes the document because certification attests to what precedes it. Filling out of order tends to produce internal inconsistencies — an entry that made sense before the header was settled and does not afterward.
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.
Unclear entries are resolved from the printed instructions first and from not stated where the two texts diverge.
Download the form
What you can download: PDF. The form runs 2 pages and asks for approximately 88 entries. The plurality of formats is deliberate: Defense distribution has never been able to assume one operating environment across the whole force.
The difference between a fillable and a printable pdf is a difference in what the file contains. A fillable release carries an interactive layer: each box is a defined field with a name and a data type, and what you type is stored as data inside the document. A printable release has no such layer — it is an image of the page, and the only place your answers can go is onto paper. The distinction matters downstream, because a Department record often gets scanned and forwarded several times before it reaches its final file, and typed characters survive that chain in a way pen strokes do not.
What the form asks for
- 1. Applicable travel statement: Press space bar to mark X in first box if priority 1, Direct support of operational forces, second box if Priority 2, Required use travel, or third box if Priority 3, Official Business travel.
- 2. Purpose of travel. a. P U J C Code.
- 2.b. Complete mission description.
- 2.c. Priority 2 compelling considerations and reason why commercial travel is unacceptable.
- 3. Total number of passengers.
- 4. Senior traveler. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 4.b. Grade/DV code.
- 4.c. Duty title.
- 4.d. Branch of service.
- b. Grade/DV code.
- c. Duty Title.
- d. Branch of service.
- a. Name, line 2.
- a. Name, line 3.
- b. Grade/DV code.
- c. Duty Title.
- d. Branch of service.
- 6. Desired flight itinerary. (1) Leg 1. a. Departure ICAO.
- b.(1) Departure date and time (Zulu)/month and year, plus or minus two hours.
- c.(1) Arrival ICAO.
- d.(1) Arrive date/time (zulu)/month/year, plus or minus 2 hours.
- (2) Leg 2. a. Departure ICAO.
- b.(3) Departure date and time.
- c.(2) Arrival ICAO.
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.
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 2768?
- DD Form 2768, Military Air Passenger and or Cargo Request, March 1998.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?