What is DD Form 2706? It is a Department of Defense form titled DD Form 2706, Annual Report on Victim and Witness Assistance, March 2013, and its job is straightforward: Annual Report on Victim and Witness Assistance. 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.
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
- 1. Reporting office.
- b. To: December 31 (enter year).
- (2) Number of witnesses informed of their rights to assistance (DD Form 2701 upon initial contact).
- 3.a.(1) Number of crime victims informed of their rights to assistance (DD Form 2701 upon initial contact).
- b.(1) Number of crime victims informed of their consultation rights in courts-martial (DD Form 2702 upon referral to court-martial).
- c. (2) Number of witnesses informed of their right to be notified of changes in the prisoner's status in prison (escape, parole, death) (DD Form 2703 upon sentencing to confinement).
- c. (1) Number of crime victims informed of their right to be notified of changes in the prisoner's status in prison (escape, parole, death) (DD Form 2703 upon sentencing to confinement).
- d. (2) Number of witnesses who elected to be notified of prisoner status changes (DD Form 2704 once informed of their right to be notified of changes in the prisoner's status).
- d. (1) Number of crime victims who elected to be notified of prisoner status changes (DD Form 2704 once informed of their right to be notified of changes in the prisoner's status).
- 4. DD Forms 2705 sent upon status change: (1) Number of prisoner status changes.
- (2) Number of notification letters sent.
- 2. Reporting period. a. From: January 1 (enter year).
- 5. As of December 31 (enter year):
- (2) Navy.
- (3) Air Force.
- Cumulative report of total service prisoners that have required victim and witness notifications: (1) Army.
- (5) Coast Guard.
- (4) Marines.
- (6) Other.
- 6. DoD Component Responsible Official. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Signature.
- c. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
Download the form
What formats exist for this form? PDF. What is the scale of it? 1 pages and approximately 22 fields.
What does any of this cost? Nothing. Every format listed is a free download. One practical note: save the file and open it in a desktop pdf reader, because browser previews often ignore interactive fields and lose what you typed.
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.
Where do you look up an unclear entry? The form face first, not stated second. And when the two disagree? not stated controls.
Who receives it? The office not stated designates, subject to whatever local instruction your organization adds. What do you keep? A copy, made before the form leaves your hands.
What if DD Form 2706 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.
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 2706?
- DD Form 2706, Annual Report on Victim and Witness Assistance, March 2013
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?