Which document is this? DD Form 1800, official title DD Form 1800, Mobile Home Inspection Record, September 1998. What does it do? It exists to Mobile Home Inspection Record. 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.
How current is this? Edition not stated, publisher status not stated. That is the version described throughout this page.
What the form asks for
- 1. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 2.a. Name of carrier.
- b. SCAC.
- c. Carrier freight bill number (to be completed by carrier at origin).
- d. Government bill of lading number.
- 3.a. Name of member.
- b. Social security number.
- c. Rank/pay grade.
- 4.a. Origin shipping office.
- b. GBLOC number.
- c. Origin address (include city, state and zip code).
- 5.a. Destination shipping office.
- b. GBLOC number.
- c. Destination address (include city, state and zip code).
- Part 2 - specifications. 6.a. Mobile home make.
- b. Model.
- c. Serial number.
- 7. Tires (to be completed by the carrier at origin). a. Left 1. (1) Size.
- (2) Ply rating.
- (3) Manufacturer serial number.
- (4) Condition (G - good, F - fair, P - poor).
- b. Left 2. (1) Size.
- (2) Ply rating.
- (3) Manufacturer serial number.
Download the form
What can you download? The available set is PDF. How big is the job? The form runs 2 pages with roughly 129 fields to complete.
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 xfdl worth downloading? Only if you have the viewer. The format comes from IBM Lotus Forms, which carried Defense form distribution for a long stretch, and no ordinary pdf application will read it.
Do you pay for these? No. Free download, every format. What should you avoid? Filling the form inside a browser tab; the fields frequently do not save.
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 if your copy is old? Replace it. Check the date printed on the form against not stated. Old blanks circulate for years in shared folders, and because a DD revision lands across the whole Department at once, the receiving office will be working from the new layout.
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.
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.
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 1800?
- DD Form 1800, Mobile Home Inspection Record, 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?