Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 1077. First, know what you are filling: Collection Point Register of Deceased Personnel. The document is titled DD Form 1077, Collection Point Register of Deceased Personnel, August 2015.
Your second step is the edition, not stated, listed as not stated. Your third is scope. Because the number carries a DD prefix, you use the same blank as every other military department and defense agency; no service-specific version exists for you to hunt down.
After that, turn to timing. The requirement comes from not stated; the form is maintained by not stated. Local implementing instructions fill in the dates, so check with the office that will receive your copy.
Finally, decide how you will complete it. You can type into a fillable file or print a blank and write by hand, and the rest of this page walks you through both paths in order.
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.
Your first action is verification. Find the edition date on the form and match it against not stated. A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
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 200 entries.
Take the pdf if you are unsure. Then check which kind you have: if the boxes highlight when you click them, you have a fillable pdf and can type straight into it, and your entries save with the file. If nothing highlights, you have a printable pdf — send it to a printer and use black ink.
Prefer typing over writing. Your form will likely be scanned and emailed onward, and typed text reproduces at every stage while pen strokes fade or blur. When you do write, print in capitals so the receiving clerk can read it.
What the form asks for
- Item 1. Date of report (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 2. Page number of this page.
- Total number of pages.
- 3. Collection point name.
- 4. Collection point location, include grid coordinates.
- 5. Organization operating collection point.
- 6. Evacuation number, line 1.
- 7. Information on deceased. a. Name (last, first, middle initial) (or unidentified).
- c. Social security number (or i.d. number).
- d. Organization.
- 8. Search and recovery number.
- 9. Name of person and or unit recovering remains.
- 10. Place of recovery, include grid coordinates.
- 11. Date recovered (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 12. Unit received from.
- 13. Remains evacuated to.
- 6. Evacuation number, line 2.
- 7. a. Name.
- c. Social security number (or i.d. number).
- d. Organization.
- 8. Search and recovery number.
- 9. Name of person and or unit recovering remains.
- 10. Place of recovery, include grid coordinates.
- 11. Date recovered.
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.
When DD Form 1077 references another form, search on the series and number. Because DD numbers are common to every military department, the number by itself identifies exactly one document.
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.
Finally, understand the limits of what you have read. This page distributes a published Department of Defense form and describes how to fill it out. It does not give legal or procedural advice, and it cannot promise any outcome for your particular case. For that, contact not stated, your administrative office, or the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1077?
- DD Form 1077, Collection Point Register of Deceased Personnel, August 2015
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?