What is DD Form 2714? It is a Department of Defense form titled DD Form 2714, Prisoner Disciplinary Report/Action, March 2013, and its job is straightforward: Prisoner Disciplinary Report/Action. 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 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.
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
- Report date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 1. Prisoner. a. Name (last, first, middle).
- 3. Housing unit/dormitory.
- 4. Cell block.
- 5. Detail.
- 6. Cell/bunk numbers.
- 7. Incident. a. Rules violation.
- b. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- c. Time.
- d. Location.
- e. Details of charge(s).
- 8. Incident reported by: a. Name (last, first, middle).
- b. Grade.
- c. Title.
- d. Signature.
- e. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- f. Time.
- 9. Incident reported to: a. Supervisor name (last, first, middle).
- b. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- c. Time.
- d. Disposition taken.
- 10.a. Was immediate medical attention needed? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- b. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- c. Time.
Download the form
What can you download? The available set is PDF. How big is the job? The form runs 2 pages with roughly 59 fields to complete.
Why will not the xfdl file open? Because it is not a pdf. Xfdl belongs to IBM Lotus Forms, long the Department's electronic form format, and it needs IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or an equivalent reader installed first.
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 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.
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.
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.
Why do some instructions cite both a DA and a DD form? Because the procedure touches both systems, not because the forms are related. Service forms answer to a service proponent; DD forms answer to not stated or another Department office. The sequences were never aligned.
How often does a form like this change? Unpredictably — revision follows directive changes, altered collection requirements and updated notice language. What is the practical defence? Verifying not stated every time you download rather than trusting a saved copy.
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 2714?
- DD Form 2714, Prisoner Disciplinary Report/Action, 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?