So what is DD Form 1074? The short answer: a Defense Department document, officially DD Form 1074, Questionnaire of Local Inhabitants, July 1998, used to Questionnaire of Local Inhabitants. Anything else you need follows from that.
Is there a version specific to your service? No. A DD number is issued at Department level, which is the whole point of the prefix — every military department and defense agency works from one identical document. Looking for a branch variant wastes time you do not have.
Where does the requirement come from? From not stated, with not stated responsible for the document itself. Those are the names to cite if anyone asks under what authority you filed.
How current is this? Edition not stated, publisher status not stated. That is the version described throughout this page.
What the form asks for
- 1. Person interviewed: a. Name: last, first, middle initial.
- 1.b. Address of person interviewed.
- 1.c. Occupation of person interviewed.
- 1.d. Date interviewed: four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 2.a. Are there remains believed to be U.S. forces interred in this area? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 2.c. Date of death: four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 2.d. Date of interment: four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 2.b. Who interred the remains?
- 2.e. Where were the remains interred? Include grid coordinates.
- 3.a. Are there remains believed to be U.S. forces above ground in this area? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 3.b. Who found the remains?
- 3.c. Where are the remains now? Include grid coordinates.
- 3.d. Date of death: four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 4. Was the person who found the remains a witness to the death? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5. Were remains recovered from an aircraft or armored vehicle? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5. If yes, describe type of vehicle, marking, and crew position.
- 6. Is the area where remains are located mined and/or boobytrapped? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 7.a. Were the remains tentatively identified prior to burial? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 7.b.1. Name of person who tentatively identified the remains: last name, first, middle initial.
- 7.b.2. Title of person identifying remains.
- 7.b.3. Address of person identifying remains.
- 8.a. Were personal effects recovered with remains? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 8.b. Where are effects now?
- 9.a. Was government property found and/or recovered with remains? X first box if yes, second box if no.
Download the form
Which files are here? These: PDF. How much work is involved? 1 pages, about 40 entry fields.
Is xfdl worth downloading? Only if you have the viewer. The format comes from IBM Lotus Forms, which carried Defense form distribution for a long stretch, and no ordinary pdf application will read it.
What does any of this cost? Nothing. Every format listed is a free download. One practical note: save the file and open it in a desktop pdf reader, because browser previews often ignore interactive fields and lose what you typed.
In what order do you complete it? The printed order, top to bottom. Header data comes before the body, and the body before the signature block. The sequence is not decorative — later entries are keyed to earlier ones.
What if your copy is old? Replace it. Check the date printed on the form against not stated. Old blanks circulate for years in shared folders, and because a DD revision lands across the whole Department at once, the receiving office will be working from the new layout.
What if a specific field still puzzles you? Read the instructions printed on the form, then not stated. Which wins if they differ? The directive.
Where does the completed form go? To the office named in not stated or in your organization's local procedure. Should you keep a copy? Always — a scan or a saved file costs nothing and spares you the whole exercise if the original disappears.
Do you need to know which branch issued a related form? No. DD numbering is Department-wide and unified, which means the number on its own is a complete address for the document.
Do DA and DD numbers ever correspond? Never. DA numbering is Army-specific, administered by an Army proponent, while DD numbering is Department-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. Identical digits in the two systems mean two unrelated documents, which is why the prefix matters more than the number.
How often does a form like this change? Unpredictably — revision follows directive changes, altered collection requirements and updated notice language. What is the practical defence? Verifying not stated every time you download rather than trusting a saved copy.
Is any of this advice? No. This page distributes a published Defense form and explains its contents, which is a different thing from telling you whether your circumstances qualify or whether a reviewer will accept your copy. Direct questions of eligibility, applicability and procedure to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1074?
- DD Form 1074, Questionnaire of Local Inhabitants, July 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?