Which document is this? DD Form 1216, official title DD Form 1216, Specific Gravity of Bituminous Mix Components, December 1965. What does it do? It exists to Bituminous Mix Components, Specific Gravity of. 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
- Date.
- Project.
- Job.
- Coarse aggregate. Material: sieve.
- Retained on: sieve.
- Sample number, column 1.
- Sample number, column 2.
- Sample number, column 3.
- Sample number, column 4.
- 1. Weight of oven - dry aggregate (grams).
- 2. Weight of saturated aggregate in water.
- 1. Weight of oven - dry aggregate.
- 2. Weight of saturated aggregate in water.
- 1. Weight of oven - dry aggregate.
- 2. Weight of saturated aggregate in water.
- 1. Weight of oven - dry aggregate.
- 2. Weight of saturated aggregate in water.
- 3. Difference (line 1 minus line 2).
- 3. Difference (line 1 minus line 2).
- 3. Difference (line 1 minus line 2).
- 3. Difference (line 1 minus line 2).
- Apparent specific gravity, G (line 1 divided by line 3).
- Fine aggregate. Material passing number: sieve.
- Sample number, column 1.
Download the form
What can you download? The available set is PDF. How big is the job? The form runs 1 pages with roughly 115 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.
Can you skip around the form? Better not to. The layout runs identification, then content, then certification, and entries near the bottom frequently take their meaning from what sits above them.
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.
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.
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 1216 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.
Why do some instructions cite both a DA and a DD form? Because the procedure touches both systems, not because the forms are related. Service forms answer to a service proponent; DD forms answer to not stated or another Department office. The sequences were never aligned.
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.
What does this page actually provide? The blank form and a description of it. What does it not provide? Legal guidance, procedural rulings, or any assurance about a particular filing. Who answers those? not stated, the administrative office that serves you, or the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1216?
- DD Form 1216, Specific Gravity of Bituminous Mix Components, December 1965
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?