You need DD Form 1074, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Questionnaire of Local Inhabitants. Its official title is DD Form 1074, Questionnaire of Local Inhabitants, July 1998.
Next, check the edition. You want not stated, currently carried as not stated by the publisher. Then confirm the form applies to you — this is a Department of Defense form, so you use it whether you serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force or Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction.
Then settle the schedule. You are working under not stated, with not stated responsible for the document, and your organization layers its own deadlines on that. Ask before you assume a date.
Last in this stage, choose your method: complete it on screen, or print the blank form and fill it out in pen. The sections below take each route step by step.
Start at the header. Complete your identification before anything else, then work through the main entries, then finish at the certification. Skipping around causes contradictions between the top of the form and the bottom.
Before your first entry, look at the corner of the page and compare the printed date with not stated. If they do not match, stop and download again. Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
For questions about a specific entry, check the form's own instructions, and if that does not settle it, open not stated. The directive controls where they differ.
Download the form
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 1 pages and about 40 entries.
Choose pdf as your default. Next, click inside a box. A fillable pdf responds by outlining the field and letting you type; the text stays in the document when you save it. A printable pdf does not respond, which tells you to print the page and complete it by hand.
Go with the typed route whenever the choice is yours. Consider what happens after you submit: the copy gets scanned, forwarded and filed, and each pass costs handwriting some legibility. Block letters help if you are stuck with a pen.
Handle xfdl in two steps. First confirm you have IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible reader on your machine; ordinary pdf software will report the file as broken. Once the viewer is running, download and fill the form.
You will not be charged for any of these; the whole set is free. Before you start entering data, save the file to your computer and open it there. Fields behave far more reliably in a desktop reader than in a browser preview.
What the form asks for
- 1. Person interviewed: a. Name: last, first, middle initial.
- 1.b. Address of person interviewed.
- 1.c. Occupation of person interviewed.
- 1.d. Date interviewed: four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 2.a. Are there remains believed to be U.S. forces interred in this area? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 2.c. Date of death: four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 2.d. Date of interment: four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 2.b. Who interred the remains?
- 2.e. Where were the remains interred? Include grid coordinates.
- 3.a. Are there remains believed to be U.S. forces above ground in this area? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 3.b. Who found the remains?
- 3.c. Where are the remains now? Include grid coordinates.
- 3.d. Date of death: four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 4. Was the person who found the remains a witness to the death? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5. Were remains recovered from an aircraft or armored vehicle? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5. If yes, describe type of vehicle, marking, and crew position.
- 6. Is the area where remains are located mined and/or boobytrapped? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 7.a. Were the remains tentatively identified prior to burial? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 7.b.1. Name of person who tentatively identified the remains: last name, first, middle initial.
- 7.b.2. Title of person identifying remains.
- 7.b.3. Address of person identifying remains.
- 8.a. Were personal effects recovered with remains? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 8.b. Where are effects now?
- 9.a. Was government property found and/or recovered with remains? X first box if yes, second box if no.
Submit the completed form through the channel not stated or your local guidance specifies. Save a copy for yourself before it leaves your hands, whether that means a scan, a photograph or a duplicate file.
Should you need a related form, look it up by its number. The DD sequence is Department-wide, which makes your search simple: no service qualifier, no branch-specific variant to track down.
Be careful when a procedure pairs this form with a service form. Read the prefix, not just the digits. Service forms answer to a service proponent, while DD forms answer to not stated or an equivalent Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Grabbing the wrong prefix gets you a form that has nothing to do with your task.
Come back and check the edition next time you need this form. Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the information collected changes, or when the required notice language is updated, and none of those events reaches you directly. Verifying not stated at the moment you download is the whole defence.
One thing this page does not do: tell you whether your submission will be accepted. We publish the document and explain how to complete it, and that is where our role ends. Nothing here is legal advice. Take questions about eligibility, applicability or procedure to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1074?
- DD Form 1074, Questionnaire of Local Inhabitants, July 1998
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?