Which document is this? DD Form 2947-3, official title DD 2947, Sep 2016, "TRICARE Young Adult Application". What does it do? It exists to TRICARE Young Adult Application - 2018 (OVERSEAS). Everything on this page builds on those two facts.
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.
How current is this? Edition not stated, publisher status not stated. That is the version described throughout this page.
What the form asks for
- Contractor's name
- Telephone or fax for OCONUS
- Contractor website.
- Servicing contractor information: Name, mailing address, web address and service fees..
- TRICARE Young Adult option desired. Press space bar to mark X in first box if TRICARE Standard, second box if TRICARE Prime, third box if TRICARE Overseas Program Prime, or fourth box if Uniformed Services Family Health Plan.
- Section I - Sponsor information. 1. Sponsor name (last, first, middle initial) (must match DEERS).
- 3. Sponsor is: X first box if active duty, second if retired, third if Selected Reserve, fourth if Retired Reserve, or fifth if deceased.
- 4. Sponsor's work telephone number (include area code/extensions).
- Residential telephone number(s).
- 5. Sponsor's email address.
- X this box to receive TRICARE e-mails.
- X if new address.
- 6. Sponsor's residence address (street, apartment number, city, state, zip code, country).
- X if same as residence address.
- X if new address.
- 7. Sponsor's mailing address (provide APO or FPO if stationed overseas).
- 8. Sponsor's military assignment. a. Unit.
- b. Unit identification code (if known).
- c. State, zip code and country of work address.
- Section II - Enrolling TRICARE Young Adult family member information or PCM change. 9. Family member name (last, first, middle initial) (must match DEERS).
- 10. Date of birth (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 11. Requested action. X first box if enroll, second if transfer enrollment, third if PCM change, or fourth if disenroll.
- Effective date.
- 12. Residence address. X if same as sponsor.
Download the form
What can you download? The available set is PDF. How big is the job? The form runs 4 pages with roughly 94 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.
Is handwriting acceptable? Yes, but it is the weaker choice. Scanning flattens pen strokes and reproduction blurs them, while typed characters survive the whole chain intact. Print in capitals if you are working from a paper blank.
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.
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.
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 2947-3?
- DD 2947, Sep 2016, "TRICARE Young Adult Application"
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?