So what is DD Form 1616? The short answer: a Defense Department document, officially DD Form 1616, Department of Defense Transportation Agreement Transfer of Professional School Personnel Outside Conus (Oconus) (Outside the 48 Continguous States and the District of Columbia), November 1999., used to Department of Defense (DoD) Transportation Agreement Transfer of Professional School Personnel Outside CONUS (OCONUS). 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.
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
- A. Employee name (Last, First, Middle Initial).
- B. Type of agreement. Press space bar to mark X in first box if initial, second box if renewal, third box if permanent change of station, or fourth box if renewal in conjunction with PCS.
- C. Employee Social Security Number. Do not include dashes.
- D. Report date to new or first Permanent Duty Station (P D S) (four digit year, two digit month, two digit day).
- E. Last P D S Location.
- F. Actual residence at time of appointment (To be determined at time of initial agreement).
- 2.a. Number of school years.
- G. Employee signature.
- H. Date Signed (four digit year, two digit month, two digit day).
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- I. Other remarks (To be completed by personnel office or employing agency officials only.)
Download the form
What can you download? The available set is PDF. How big is the job? The form runs 2 pages with roughly 12 fields to complete.
Why do two kinds of pdf exist? Because two kinds of user exist. One completes the form on screen and forwards a file; the other prints a blank and fills it by hand. The fillable release has interactive boxes, the printable release is a static image of the same page.
Should you type or write? Type, whenever the choice is yours. The reason is what happens after submission: the record gets copied and scanned, and every pass costs handwriting legibility that typed entries never lose.
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.
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.
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 1616?
- DD Form 1616, Department of Defense Transportation Agreement Transfer of Professional School Personnel Outside Conus (Oconus) (Outside the 48 Continguous States and the District of Columbia), November 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?