What is DD Form 2260? It is a Department of Defense form titled DD Form 2260, Unit Mail Clerk/Orderly Designation Log, May 2000, and its job is straightforward: Unit Mail-Clerk/Orderly Designation Log. That single line covers most of what people want to know before they download it.
Does it apply to your branch? Yes. The DD prefix means Department of Defense, not one service, so the same blank serves the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force and the Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction. There is no Army version and no Navy version to search for.
Who decides this form exists? not stated owns it; not stated directs its use. If someone told you to file this, the authority traces back to those.
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. Card number, line 10.
- 2. Date issued.
- 3. Date revoked.
- 4. Activity identifier.
- 5. Name of designee.
- 6. Designee signature.
- 7. Appointing official signature.
- 8. Pay grade.
- 1. Card number, line 1.
- 2. Date issued (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 3. Date revoked (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 4. Activity identifier.
- 5. Name of designee (print) (last, first, middle initial).
- 6. Designee signature.
- 7. Appointing official signature.
- 8. Pay grade.
- 1. Card number, line 2.
- 2. Date issued.
- 3. Date revoked.
- 4. Activity identifier.
- 5. Name of designee.
- 6. Designee signature.
- 7. Appointing official signature.
- 8. Pay grade.
Download the form
What can you download? The available set is PDF. How big is the job? The form runs 1 pages with roughly 154 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.
Should you type or write? Type, whenever the choice is yours. The reason is what happens after submission: the record gets copied and scanned, and every pass costs handwriting legibility that typed entries never lose.
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.
What if a specific field still puzzles you? Read the instructions printed on the form, then not stated. Which wins if they differ? The directive.
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.
What if DD Form 2260 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.
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.
Should you archive this file and reuse it next year? Better not. Forms are revised as directives are reissued, as data requirements shift and as statutory notice text is updated, and none of that reaches you directly. Download fresh, check the edition date.
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 2260?
- DD Form 2260, Unit Mail Clerk/Orderly Designation Log, May 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?