What is DD Form 1740? It is a Department of Defense form titled DD Form 1740, Food Inspection Stamp Record, January 2000, and its job is straightforward: Food Inspection Stamp Record. That single line covers most of what people want to know before they download it.
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.
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
- 4. Record of issue and turn in. a. Date issued (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day), line 1.
- 4.b. Signature of assigned inspector.
- 4.c. Date turned in (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 1. Organization or Unit.
- 2. Stamp serial number.
- 3. Stamp impression.
- 4.a. Date issued, line 2.
- 4.b. Signature of assigned inspector.
- 4.c. Date turned in.
- 4.a. Date issued, line 3.
- 4.b. Signature of assigned inspector.
- 4.c. Date turned in.
- 5. Record of inventory. a. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day), line 1.
- 5.b. Signature of inventory officer.
- 5.a. Date, line 2.
- 5.b. Signature of inventory officer.
- 5.a. Date, line 3.
- 5.b. Signature of inventory officer.
- 5.a. Date, line 4.
- 5.b. Signature of inventory officer.
- 5.a. Date, line 5.
- 5.b. Signature of inventory officer.
- 5.a. Date, line 6.
- 5.b. Signature of inventory officer.
Download the form
What can you download? The available set is PDF. How big is the job? The form runs 1 pages with roughly 43 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.
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.
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.
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.
Where does the completed form go? To the office named in not stated or in your organization's local procedure. Should you keep a copy? Always — a scan or a saved file costs nothing and spares you the whole exercise if the original disappears.
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.
Do DA and DD numbers ever correspond? Never. DA numbering is Army-specific, administered by an Army proponent, while DD numbering is Department-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. Identical digits in the two systems mean two unrelated documents, which is why the prefix matters more than the number.
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 1740?
- DD Form 1740, Food Inspection Stamp Record, January 2000
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?