Which document is this? DD Form 1205, official title DD Form 1205, Soil Moisture Content, December 1999. What does it do? It exists to Soil Moisture-Content Determination. Everything on this page builds on those two facts.
Will you need a different form because of where you serve? No. DD forms are Department-wide instruments, and that scope is what separates them from service publications. One edition, all branches, defense agencies included.
Who decides this form exists? not stated owns it; not stated directs its use. If someone told you to file this, the authority traces back to those.
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. Project.
- 2. Date.
- 3. Job number.
- 4. Test site.
- 5. Sample number.
- Run number, column 2.
- Tare number.
- a. Weight of tare + wet soil.
- b. Weight of tare + dry soil.
- c. Weight of water (Ww) (a. - b.).
- d. Weight of tare.
- d. Weight of dry soil (Ws) (b. - d.).
- Water content (percent) (c/e x 100).
- Run number, column 3.
- Tare number.
- a. Weight of tare + wet soil.
- b. Weight of tare + dry soil.
- c. Weight of water (Ww) (a. - b.).
- d. Weight of tare.
- d. Weight of dry soil (Ws) (b. - d.).
- Water content (percent) (c/e x 100).
- Run number, column 4.
- Tare number.
- a. Weight of tare + wet soil.
Download the form
What formats exist for this form? PDF. What is the scale of it? 1 pages and approximately 200 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.
Is there a charge? No — free, all formats. Where should you open the file? In a full pdf application on your own machine. Browser-embedded viewers handle field properties unpredictably.
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.
Where do you look up an unclear entry? The form face first, not stated second. And when the two disagree? not stated controls.
Who receives it? The office not stated designates, subject to whatever local instruction your organization adds. What do you keep? A copy, made before the form leaves your hands.
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.
Should you archive this file and reuse it next year? Better not. Forms are revised as directives are reissued, as data requirements shift and as statutory notice text is updated, and none of that reaches you directly. Download fresh, check the edition date.
Will your completed form be accepted? That is not a question this page can answer. What you have here is a published Department of Defense document, a description of it and instructions for filling it out. Nothing on the page is legal advice, and nothing here determines what any office does with a submission. Where do the remaining questions go? To not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1205?
- DD Form 1205, Soil Moisture Content, December 1999
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?