You need DD Form 1210, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Laboratory Compaction Characteristics of Soil (Compaction Test). Its official title is DD Form 1210, Laboratory Compaction Characteristics of Soil (Compaction Test), December 1999.
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.
Once you know the form fits, find out when you file it. not stated sets the requirement, and not stated maintains the form itself. Your own command or agency adds local timing on top of that, so ask your administrative office if the deadline matters to you.
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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
Look up an unclear item on the form face before anywhere else, then in not stated. Should the two texts conflict, the directive is the one you follow.
Download the form
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 1 pages, and you will complete roughly 164 fields.
Download the pdf first. After it opens, test a field with your cursor. Fillable means you type, tab to the next box, and save your work inside the file. Printable means the page is a flat blank, so print it and write your answers in 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
- 1. Project.
- 2. Excavation number.
- 3. Sample number.
- 4. Date.
- 5. Layers.
- Blows per layer.
- 6. Weight of tamper (pounds).
- 7. Height of drop (inches).
- 8. Specific gravity of solids (Gs).
- 9. Diameter of mold (inches).
- 10. Volume of soil sample. Press space bar to mark X in first box if 0.0333 cubic feet or second box if 0.075 cubic feet.
- 11. Run number, column 1.
- 12. Weight of mold + wet soil (grams).
- 13. Weight of mold (grams).
- 14. Weight of wet soil (12 - 13) (grams).
- 15. Wet unit weight (pcf).
- 16. Tare number (run 1, column 1).
- a. Weight of tare = wet soil (grams).
- b. Weight of tare + dry soil (grams).
- c. Weight of water (Ww) (a - b) (grams).
- d. Weight of tare (grams).
- e. Weight of dry soil (Ws) (grams) (b - d).
- f. Water content (w = Ws/Ws x 100) (percent).
- 16. Tare number (run 1, column 2).
Now that it is complete, send it where not stated or your local procedure says it goes. Before you do, make yourself a copy — scan it or save the file elsewhere. It costs you nothing and saves you the whole exercise if the original goes missing.
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.
Here is where people go wrong. They see a number in an instruction and download whichever form matches it. But DA and DD are separate systems — Army-specific in one case, Department-wide under not stated in the other — so check which series you were sent to before you take the file.
Do not archive this file and reuse it in a year. Forms are reissued as directives are revised, as data requirements shift, and as statutory notice text is amended. Your protection is simple: download fresh each time and confirm the edition date.
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 1210?
- DD Form 1210, Laboratory Compaction Characteristics of Soil (Compaction Test), December 1999
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?