Which document is this? DD Form 1936, official title DD Form 1936, Individual Case Report - Exercise of Criminal Jurisdiction by Foreign Tribunals over U.S. Personnel, April 1974.. What does it do? It exists to Individual Case Report - Exercise of Criminal Jurisdiction by Foreign Tribunals Over U.S. Personnel. Everything on this page builds on those two facts.
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.
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.
Is this the right edition? The current one is dated not stated, and the publisher carries it as not stated. Check that against whatever copy you already have before going further.
What the form asks for
- To.
- From.
- Part 1. Accused Data. 1. Last name - first name - middle initial.
- 2. Grade.
- 3. Date eligible for return from overseas.
- 4. Social security number.
- 5. Organization.
- 6. Date of flagging action/legal hold.
- 7. Status. Press space bar to mark X in first box if military, second box if civilian, or third box if dependent.
- 8. Last home address.
- 9. Date of expiration of term of service.
- 10. Race.
- 11. Prior military or civilian convictions and punishment under article 15, U C M J.
- Part 2 - Pretrial data. 12. Nature of offense.
- 13. Date of offense.
- 14. Date apprehended.
- 16. Date of request(s) for U.S. custody.
- 18. Date of pretrial confinement.
- 15. Name of co-accused.
- 17. Place of offense.
- 19. Place(s) of pretrial confinement (in chronological order).
- 21. Charges under UCMJ.
- 23. Results of Article 32 investigation.
- 20. Date of request(s) for waiver of jurisdiction.
Download the form
What can you download? The available set is PDF. How big is the job? The form runs 2 pages with roughly 52 fields to complete.
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.
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.
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.
Can you leave fields blank? Not safely. A reviewer cannot tell a deliberate omission from a missed question, so mark inapplicable items N/A. And date fields? Match the format shown on the form — conventions differ, and misreading a date is easy.
Why read the Privacy Act Statement? Because it sits ahead of the personal data fields deliberately. It names the collection authority, the principal purpose, the routine uses of your data and the consequence of declining. Reading it afterward tells you nothing you can still act on.
What counts as a signature? Ink on a printed copy, or a credentialed digital signature — CAC-based, applied in software that supports it. What does not count? Your name typed into the signature box. That is a name. Then date the block, because an undated certification is a returned form.
What goes wrong most? The same short list: old edition, empty fields, illegibility, wrong date format, missing signature or date.
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.
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.
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 1936?
- DD Form 1936, Individual Case Report - Exercise of Criminal Jurisdiction by Foreign Tribunals over U.S. Personnel, April 1974.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?