What is DD Form 250-1? It is a Department of Defense form titled DD Form 250-1, Tanker/Barge Material Inspection and Receiving Report, November 1992, and its job is straightforward: Tanker/Barge Material Inspection and Receiving Report. 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 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
- 1. Tanker/barge: Press space bar to mark X in first box if loading report, second box if discharge report.
- 2. Inspection office.
- 3. Report number.
- 4. Agency placing order on shipper, city, state and/or local address (loading).
- 5. Department.
- 6. Prime contract or Purchase Order number.
- 7. Name of prime contractor, city, state, and or local address (loading).
- 8. Storage contract.
- 9. Terminal or refinery shipped from, city, state, and or local address (loading).
- 10. Order number on supplier.
- 11. Shipped to (Receiving activity, City, State, and or local address).
- 12. Bill of Lading number.
- 13. Requisition or request number.
- 14. Cargo number.
- 16. Draft arrival: Fore.
- 16. Draft Arrival: Aft.
- 17. Draft sailing: Fore.
- 17. Draft Sailing: Aft.
- 18. Previous two cargoes: First.
- 15. Vessel.
- 18. Previous two cargoes: Last.
- 19. Prior inspection.
- 20. Condition of shore pipeline.
- 21. Appropriation (loading).
Download the form
Which files are here? These: PDF. How much work is involved? 1 pages, about 90 entry fields.
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 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.
Which fields are required? Treat all of them as required, marking N/A where an item genuinely does not apply. What trips people on dates? Writing them in a familiar format instead of the one the form specifies.
What does the Privacy Act notice cover? Four things: the legal authority behind the collection, the purpose, the routine uses, and whether disclosure is required. When should you read it? Before entering personal information, while the choice is still open.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 250-1?
- DD Form 250-1, Tanker/Barge Material Inspection and Receiving Report, November 1992
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?