What is DD Form 843? It is a Department of Defense form titled DD Form 843, Requisition for Printing and Binding Service, July 1955, and its job is straightforward: Requisition For< Printing and Binding Service. That single line covers most of what people want to know before they download it.
Will you need a different form because of where you serve? No. DD forms are Department-wide instruments, and that scope is what separates them from service publications. One edition, all branches, defense agencies included.
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
- Fund. Press space bar to mark X in first box if appropriated, second box if non-appropriated.
- Date.
- Activity order number.
- Job number, for plant use only.
- From: originating agency, person to contact and telephone extension.
- To.
- Thru: appropriate printing control authority.
- 1. Title of publication.
- 2. Publication number and date.
- 3. Purpose, function, economies effected and concurrences.
- 4. Quantity in: sheets.
- Quantity in: books.
- Quantity in: pads.
- Quantity in: sets.
- Quantity in: other (specify in item 13).
- 4.a. Partial delivery requested: Date.
- Quantity.
- 4.b. Complete delivery requested: Date.
- Quantity.
- 6. Number of pages.
- 5. Size of publication: a. trim size: enter width.
- 5.a. Length of trim size.
- 5.b. Folded to: width.
- 5.b. Length.
Download the form
What can you download? The available set is PDF. How big is the job? The form runs 1 pages with roughly 136 fields to complete.
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.
Can you skip around the form? Better not to. The layout runs identification, then content, then certification, and entries near the bottom frequently take their meaning from what sits above them.
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 If not, the copy is superseded, and a superseded DD form is a real problem: Department-level revisions replace the blank for every service at once, so an old file on a shared drive is stale everywhere, not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.
What happens after you finish? It routes to the office specified in not stated or in local guidance. And your own record? Save a duplicate first; nobody regrets having one.
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.
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.
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 843?
- DD Form 843, Requisition for Printing and Binding Service, July 1955
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?