Which document is this? DD Form 1206, official title DD Form 1206, Grain-Size Analysis (Sieve Method), December 1999. What does it do? It exists to Grain-Size Analysis (Sieve Method). Everything on this page builds on those two facts.
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.
Which edition should you have? not stated, listed as not stated. A copy dated otherwise is a copy worth replacing.
What the form asks for
- 1. Project.
- 2. Date.
- 3. Job number.
- 4. Excavation.
- 5. Date completed.
- 6. Notes about sample/description.
- 7. Sample number.
- 8. Original sample weight.
- 9. Prewashed? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 10. Plus #200 sample weight, washed.
- 11. Minus #200 sample weight, washed.
- 12. Sieve size.
- 13. Sieve weight.
- 14. Sieve-sample weight.
- 15. Weight retained.
- 16. Cumulative weight retained.
- 17. Percent retained.
- 18. Percent passing.
- 19. Total weight retained in sieves (sum of column 15).
- 20. Weight sieved through #200 (weight in pan).
- 22. Total weight passing #200 sieve (20 + 11).
- 24. Error (8 - 23).
- 25. Error in percentage (24/8 X 100).
- 21. Washing loss (8 - (10 + 11))
Download the form
What can you download? The available set is PDF. How big is the job? The form runs 1 pages with roughly 113 fields to complete.
Fillable or printable — which do you have? Click inside a box. If it accepts a cursor and typed text, the file is fillable and your entries save with it. If nothing happens, the pdf is flat, and the only way forward is printing it and writing on paper.
Does typing matter? It does. Your completed form will probably be scanned, forwarded and filed, and typed text comes through each of those steps unchanged while handwriting degrades. If pen is your only option, block capitals give the receiving clerk a fighting chance.
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 is the first thing to check? The edition date on the face of the form. Does it read not stated? If not, the copy is superseded, and a superseded DD form is a real problem: Department-level revisions replace the blank for every service at once, so an old file on a shared drive is stale everywhere, not just in your office.
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.
What if DD Form 1206 points to another form? Search the series and number. Because the DD sequence is common to every military department, no branch qualifier is needed to land on the right file.
Can you assume a matching number is the same form? No, and this is where downloads go wrong. Read the prefix. Army numbering and Department numbering are independent systems, so the digits alone tell you nothing about which document you need.
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.
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 1206?
- DD Form 1206, Grain-Size Analysis (Sieve Method), 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?