What is DD Form 1626? It is a Department of Defense form titled DD Form 1626, Veterinary Necropsy Report Checklist and Guidelines, October 2001., and its job is straightforward: Veterinary Necropsy Report. That single line covers most of what people want to know before they download it.
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.
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.
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
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- Left thyroid (grams).
- Right thyroid (grams).
- Left adrenal (grams).
- Right adrenal (grams).
- Adrenal glands.
- Pituitary gland.
- Left kidney (grams).
- Right kidney (grams).
- Urinary system.
- Heart weight (grams).
- Heart.
- Right lung (grams).
- Left lung (grams).
- Liver weight (grams).
- Liver.
- Pancreas.
- Spleen.
- 1. Contributor/prosector.
- 2. Date of report (4 digit year, 3 letter month, 2 digit day).
- 3. Name and address of reporting unit.
- 4. Geographic location (country).
- 5. Telephone number.
- 6. Fax number.
Download the form
What formats exist for this form? PDF. What is the scale of it? 12 pages and approximately 132 fields.
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.
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.
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.
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 1626?
- DD Form 1626, Veterinary Necropsy Report Checklist and Guidelines, October 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?