Which document is this? DD Form 1799, official title DD Form 1799, Member's Report on Carrier Performance - Mobile Home, September 1998. What does it do? It exists to Member's Report on Carrier Performance - Mobile Homes. 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.
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
- Section I - to be completed by destination ITO. 1. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 2. Required Delivery Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 3. Government Bill of Lading Number.
- 4.a. Name of Member (last, first, middle initial).
- 4.b. Grade.
- 5. Name of Carrier.
- 6. Origin Installation.
- 7. Pickup address (street, apartment number, city, state, zip code).
- Press space bar to mark X in first box if trailer court, second box if storage facility.
- 8. Destination Installation
- Section II - To be completed by member. 9. Did the carrier pick up the mobile home on the agreed date? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 10. Did the carrier provide all the required services? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 11. Was the mobile home offered for delivery on or before the required delivery date? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 12. Was the mobile home and its contents delivered without loss or damage? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 12. If no, estimated value of loss and/or damage.
- 13. Was the carrier cooperative in checking the condition of your mobile home upon delivery? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 14. Did the carrier provide you a completed mobile home inspection record at origin? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 15. Did you consider the carrier personnel: a. Courteous? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- b. Cooperative? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- c. Neat in appearance? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 16. Were you satisfied with the carrier's services on this movement of your mobile home at: a. Origin? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- b. Destination? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 17. Were the Transportation Office personnel courteous and helpful to you? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 18. Comments. Briefly explain all "No" answers.
Download the form
What can you download? The available set is PDF. How big is the job? The form runs 1 pages with roughly 32 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.
Is handwriting acceptable? Yes, but it is the weaker choice. Scanning flattens pen strokes and reproduction blurs them, while typed characters survive the whole chain intact. Print in capitals if you are working from a paper blank.
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.
Is the form its own instruction manual? Partly. The rest sits in not stated, which is also the authority where the two texts conflict.
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.
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.
What does this page actually provide? The blank form and a description of it. What does it not provide? Legal guidance, procedural rulings, or any assurance about a particular filing. Who answers those? not stated, the administrative office that serves you, or the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1799?
- DD Form 1799, Member's Report on Carrier Performance - Mobile Home, September 1998
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?