So what is DD Form 2655? The short answer: a Defense Department document, officially DD Form 2655, Complaint of Discrimination in the Federal Government, June 2012, used to Complaint of Discrimination in the Federal Government. Anything else you need follows from that.
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
- For agency use.
- 1. Full name of complainant (last, first, middle initial).
- 2.a. Home telephone number (area code only).
- 2.a. Remainder of home telephone number.
- 2.b. Office telephone number (area code only).
- 2.b. Remainder of office telephone number.
- 3. Address (Street, city, state and ZIP Code).
- 4.a. Name of office that you believe discriminated against you.
- 4.b. Address of office (Street, city, state and ZIP Code).
- 4.c. Name and title of person(s) you believe discriminated against you, if you know.
- 5. Are you now working for the Federal government? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5.a. Name of agency where you work.
- 5.b. Address of your agency (Street, city, state and ZIP code).
- 5.c. Title and grade of your job.
- 6. Election of representation. X first box if attorney, second if non-attorney, or third if no representation.
- a. Name of representative.
- b. Address (include Zip Code).
- c. Telephone (include area code).
- d. Fax (include area code).
- e. E-mail address.
- 7. Date on which most recent alleged discrimination took place: four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 8. X why you believe you were discriminated against. a. Race.
- If checked, state your race.
- b. X if color.
Download the form
What can you download? The available set is PDF. How big is the job? The form runs 3 pages with roughly 54 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.
Where do you start? At the top. Identification first, the substance of the entry second, certification last. Why that order? Because fields lower on the page often depend on data you established in the header, and filling out of sequence produces contradictions.
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.
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.
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 2655?
- DD Form 2655, Complaint of Discrimination in the Federal Government, June 2012
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?