Which document is this? DD Form 1795, official title DD Form 1795, Combined Mechanical Analysis (Sedimentation Test), February 1971. What does it do? It exists to Combined Mechanical Analysis (Sedimentation Test). Everything on this page builds on those two facts.
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.
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
- Date.
- Project.
- Excavation.
- Sample number.
- Weight of total sample.
- Weight passing number 10 sieve.
- Percent passing number 10 sieve.
- Weight retained on number 10 sieve (grams).
- Weight retained on number 200 sieve (grams).
- Total weight finer than number 200 sieve (grams).
- Washing loss (grams).
- Sieve analysis. 2 inch sieve or screen; opening 50.8 mm: weight of sieve (grams).
- Weight of sieve and sample (grams).
- Weight retained on sieve (grams).
- Cumulative weight retained (grams).
- Percent retained.
- Percent finer.
- 1 inch sieve or screen; opening 25.4 mm: weight of sieve (grams).
- Weight of sieve and sample (grams).
- Weight retained on sieve (grams).
- Cumulative weight retained (grams).
- Percent retained.
- Percent finer.
- 3/4 inch sieve or screen; opening 19.0 mm: weight of sieve (grams).
Download the form
Which files are here? These: PDF. How much work is involved? 1 pages, about 116 entry fields.
Fillable or printable — which do you have? Click inside a box. If it accepts a cursor and typed text, the file is fillable and your entries save with it. If nothing happens, the pdf is flat, and the only way forward is printing it and writing on paper.
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.
Is there a charge? No — free, all formats. Where should you open the file? In a full pdf application on your own machine. Browser-embedded viewers handle field properties unpredictably.
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.
Is the form its own instruction manual? Partly. The rest sits in not stated, which is also the authority where the two texts conflict.
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.
What if DD Form 1795 points to another form? Search the series and number. Because the DD sequence is common to every military department, no branch qualifier is needed to land on the right file.
Can you assume a matching number is the same form? No, and this is where downloads go wrong. Read the prefix. Army numbering and Department numbering are independent systems, so the digits alone tell you nothing about which document you need.
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 1795?
- DD Form 1795, Combined Mechanical Analysis (Sedimentation Test), February 1971
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?