Which document is this? DD Form 1618, official title DD Form 1618, Department of Defense Transportation Agreement Transfer of Civilian Employees to and within Continental United States (Conus) (48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia), November 1999.. What does it do? It exists to Department of Defense (DoD) Transportation Agreement Transfer of Civilian Employees to and within Continental United States. 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.
Which edition should you have? not stated, listed as not stated. A copy dated otherwise is a copy worth replacing.
What the form asks for
- A. Employee name (Last, First, Middle Initial).
- B. Employee social security number. Do not include dashes.
- C. New appointee or student trainee? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- D. Report date to new or first Permanent Duty Station (P D S) (Four Digit Year, Two Digit Month, Two Digit Day).
- E. New or first PDS location.
- F. Signature of designated civilian personnel officer/human resources officer or designee.
- G. Actual residence at time of appointment (To be determined at time of initial agreement).
- J. Other remarks (To be completed by personnel office or employing agency officials only).
- H. Employee signature.
- I. Date Signed (Four Digit Year, Two Digit Month, Two Digit Day).
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
Download the form
What formats exist for this form? PDF. What is the scale of it? 2 pages and approximately 11 fields.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 1618?
- DD Form 1618, Department of Defense Transportation Agreement Transfer of Civilian Employees to and within Continental United States (Conus) (48 Contiguous 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?