What is DD Form 2643? It is a Department of Defense form titled DD Form 2643, High Cost Foreign Lease, September 1993, and its job is straightforward: High Cost Foreign Lease. That single line covers most of what people want to know before they download it.
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. Effective date.
- 2. Lease number.
- 3. Quarters I D code.
- Section 1 - Position Data. 4. Position normally assigned to unit.
- 5. Normal grade for position.
- Section 2 - Present Incumbent. 6. Name.
- 7. Grade.
- 8. Scheduled arrival date.
- 9. Date tour ends.
- 10. Organization assignment.
- 11. Gender and age of dependents (except spouse).
- Section 3 - Component Leasing Unit. 12. DoD component.
- 13. Executive agent (installation/MACOM administering lease agreement).
- 14. Reason for lease. Press space bar to mark X in first box if special command position, second box if country requirement, third box if attache system, fourth box if undue hardship, or fifth box if other.
- If other reason, explain.
- Section 4 - Lease Data. 15. Address (include apartment number, city, state, country and 9 digit zip code).
- 16. Gross square feet.
- 17. Net square feet.
- 18. Number of bedrooms
- 19. Number of full baths.
- 20. Number of half baths.
- 21. Land square footage.
- 22. Unit type. X first box if detached, second box if high rise, third box if duplex, etc.
- 23. Distance from work site. a. Miles.
Download the form
What can you download? The available set is PDF. How big is the job? The form runs 1 pages with roughly 39 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Is a typed name enough? No. The signature block takes an actual signature: pen on paper, or a digital signature applied with your Common Access Card where the receiving system accepts one. Add the date beside it before you close the file.
What sends forms back most often? An obsolete edition, blank required boxes, handwriting illegible after scanning, dates in a format the form did not ask for, and certification without a signature or without a 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.
Do you need to know which branch issued a related form? No. DD numbering is Department-wide and unified, which means the number on its own is a complete address for the document.
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.
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 2643?
- DD Form 2643, High Cost Foreign Lease, September 1993
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?