So what is DD Form 1225? The short answer: a Defense Department document, officially DD Form 1225, Storage Quality Control Report, September 2001., used to Storage Quality Control Report. Anything else you need follows from that.
Does it apply to your branch? Yes. The DD prefix means Department of Defense, not one service, so the same blank serves the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force and the Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction. There is no Army version and no Navy version to search for.
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
- R I C.
- 1. Date generated: two digit day, three letter month, four digit year.
- 2. Report number.
- 3. Managing activity address.
- 4. Reporting activity or submitter address.
- 5. National stock number.
- 6. Type of inspection. Press space bar to mark X in first box if cyclic, second box if shelf life expiration, third box if special, fourth box if COSIS, fifth box if outbound shipment, or sixth box if other.
- 7. Nomenclature.
- 8. CAGE code and part or model number (if applicable).
- 9. Serial number (if applicable).
- 10. Condition code.
- 11. Lot/batch/control number.
- 12. Expiration date: Two digit month, four digit year.
- 13. Unit price.
- 14. Unit of issue.
- 15. Contractor considered liable? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 16. Contractor or Packed By, as applicable.
- 17. Contract number (when applicable).
- 18. Date of manufacture: two digit month, four digit year.
- 19.a. Date of pack: two digit month, four digit year.
- 19.b. Date of last COSIS inspection: two digit month, four digit year.
- 20. Method of preservation.
- 21. Level of packing. X first box if A, second box if B, or third box if minimum.
- 22. Condition of packing. X first box if satisfactory, second box if unsatisfactory.
Download the form
Which files are here? These: PDF. How much work is involved? 1 pages, about 72 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.
Why does the edition matter so much here? Because DD forms are revised centrally. When the Department reissues one, it reissues it for all branches simultaneously, and the field layout can shift. Compare the printed date against not stated before you type anything.
Is the form its own instruction manual? Partly. The rest sits in not stated, which is also the authority where the two texts conflict.
What happens after you finish? It routes to the office specified in not stated or in local guidance. And your own record? Save a duplicate first; nobody regrets having one.
How do you find a form referenced inside this one? By its number alone. The DD sequence runs across the entire Department, so a number identifies exactly one document regardless of which service cited it.
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.
Why do editions change at all? Three reasons, mostly: the prescribing directive gets reissued, the information collected changes, or the required notice language is amended. Are you notified when it happens? No. Which is why confirming not stated at the moment you download is worth the few seconds.
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 1225?
- DD Form 1225, Storage Quality Control Report, September 2001.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?