So what is DD Form 1299? The short answer: a Defense Department document, officially DD 1299, Application for Shipment and/or Storage of Personal Property, September 1998, used to Application for Shipment and/or Storage of Personal Property. Anything else you need follows from that.
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 is behind it? not stated maintains the form, and not stated is the publication that requires it. Those two names answer most questions about why you are being asked to submit anything at all.
Is this the right edition? The current one is dated not stated, and the publisher carries it as not stated. Check that against whatever copy you already have before going further.
What the form asks for
- 1. Date prepared (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 2. Shipment number.
- 3. Name of preparing office.
- 4. To (Responsible Origin Personal Property Shipping Office). a. Name.
- b. Address (Street, Suite Number, City, State, ZIP Code).
- 5. Name of destination personal property shipping office.
- 6. Member or employee information. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Rank/grade.
- c. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- d. Agency.
- 7. Request action be taken to transport or store the following: a. Household goods/unaccompanied baggage/items/no. of containers (quantity estimate): (1) Pounds.
- (2) Pounds of professional books, papers and equipment (or "none" if not applicable).
- (3) Expensive and valuable items (number of cartons).
- b. Mobile home information. (1) Serial number.
- (2) Length (dimensions in feet and inches).
- (3) Width (dimensions in feet and inches).
- (4) Height (dimensions in feet and inches).
- (5) Type expando (describe).
- c. Mobile home services requested. X if contents packed.
- X if mobile home blocked.
- X if mobile home unblocked.
- X if stored at origin.
- X if stored at destination.
- 8. This shipment/storage is required incident to the following change of station orders: a. Type of orders. X first box if permanent, second box if temporary.
Download the form
Which files are here? These: PDF. How much work is involved? 2 pages, about 61 entry fields.
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.
Is handwriting acceptable? Yes, but it is the weaker choice. Scanning flattens pen strokes and reproduction blurs them, while typed characters survive the whole chain intact. Print in capitals if you are working from a paper blank.
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.
Where do you start? At the top. Identification first, the substance of the entry second, certification last. Why that order? Because fields lower on the page often depend on data you established in the header, and filling out of sequence produces contradictions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 1299?
- DD 1299, Application for Shipment and/or Storage of Personal Property, September 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?