So what is DD Form 2720? The short answer: a Defense Department document, officially DD Form 2720, Annual Correctional Report, March 2013, used to Annual Correction Report. Anything else you need follows from that.
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. This report is due to: (enter agency) by 16 February annually.
- 2. Branch of service reporting.
- 3. Report date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 5. Reporting year.
- 6. Point of contact. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Commercial telephone number (include area code).
- c. DSN telephone number.
- 7. Facilities and capacities of reporting service. a. CONUS. (1) Correctional facilities (level I). (i) Number of facilities.
- (ii) Total design capacity.
- (iii) Total operational capacity.
- Head count on 31 December reporting year. (iv) Pre-trial.
- (v) Post-trial.
- (vi) Total.
- 7.a.(2) Regional correctional facilities (level II). (i) Number of facilities.
- (ii) Total design capacity.
- (iii) Total operational capacity.
- Head count on 31 December reporting year. (iv) Pre-trial.
- (v) Post-trial.
- (vi) Total.
- 7.a.(3) Long term correctional facilities (level III). (i) Number of facilities.
- (ii) Total design capacity.
- (iii) Total operational capacity.
- Head count on 31 December reporting year. (iv) Pre-trial.
- (v) Post-trial.
Download the form
What formats exist for this form? PDF. What is the scale of it? 8 pages and approximately 200 fields.
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.
Should you type or write? Type, whenever the choice is yours. The reason is what happens after submission: the record gets copied and scanned, and every pass costs handwriting legibility that typed entries never lose.
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.
Do you pay for these? No. Free download, every format. What should you avoid? Filling the form inside a browser tab; the fields frequently do not save.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 2720?
- DD Form 2720, Annual Correctional Report, 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?