So what is DD Form 1435? The short answer: a Defense Department document, officially DD Form 1435, COMSEC Maintenance Training and Experience Record, May 2009, used to COMSEC Maintenance Training and Experience Record. Anything else you need follows from that.
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.
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.
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. Name of technician completing COMSEC maintenance course (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. Rank or grade.
- 3. Service.
- a. Equipment short title, line 1.
- b. Qualified. Answer Yes or No.
- c. Method.
- d. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- e. Remarks. Include school or organization.
- f. Certification. (1) Signature of certifying officer.
- (2) Organization of certifying officer.
- a. Equipment short title, line 2.
- b. Qualified. Answer Yes or No.
- c. Method.
- d. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- e. Remarks.
- f.(1) Signature of certifying officer.
- (2) Organization of certifying officer.
- a. Equipment short title, line 3.
- b. Qualified. Answer Yes or No.
- c. Method.
- d. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- e. Remarks.
- f. (1) Signature of certifying officer.
- (2) Organization of certifying officer.
Download the form
What can you download? The available set is PDF. How big is the job? The form runs 2 pages with roughly 74 fields to complete.
What is the difference between fillable and printable? A fillable pdf has real field boxes that accept typed text and hold it inside the file. A printable pdf is a flat blank with no fields at all, intended for a printer and a pen. Which one you have determines how you complete the form, so it is worth checking first.
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.
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.
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 1435?
- DD Form 1435, COMSEC Maintenance Training and Experience Record, May 2009
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?