You have arrived looking for DD Form 1215. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: In-Place Density Determination - Sand-Cone Method. Full title: DD Form 1215, In-Place Density Determination - Sand-Cone Method, December 1999.
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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.
Begin at the top and move down. Enter your identifying data first, then the body of the form, then the signature block. The sequence is printed in that order because entries below frequently follow from entries above.
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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
Take the fields in order and answer all of them. Mark inapplicable items N/A instead of leaving white space. When you reach a date, copy the format shown on the form, since a reviewer reading a different convention may misread your entry entirely.
Stop at the Privacy Act Statement and read it through. You will find the authority for the collection, the principal purpose, the routine uses, and whether disclosure is voluntary or mandatory. Read it now, while you still have the choice of what to disclose.
Sign last, and sign properly. On paper that means ink in the signature block. Electronically it means a digital signature, usually applied with your Common Access Card in a reader that supports it. Typing your name into the field does not sign anything. Then add the date beside your signature — an unsigned or undated form is the most common reason one comes back.
Then check your work against the usual failures: an obsolete edition, empty required boxes, handwriting nobody can read after scanning, wrong date format, missing signature or date.
If a particular field puzzles you, read the instructions printed on the form first, then go to not stated. When the two disagree, follow the directive.
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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.
Whichever you pick, you pay nothing — every format here is a free download. One last tip: open your pdf in a desktop reader rather than in a browser tab, because browser viewers sometimes drop the interactive fields you need.
What the form asks for
- 1. Project.
- 2. Date.
- 3. Job number.
- 4. Test site.
- 5. Sample number.
- 6. Additional specifications.
- Calibration of Sand (standard material. Apparatus or Tare number, column 1.
- 7. Weight of apparatus or tare filled (grams), column 1.
- 8. Weight of apparatus or tare empty (grams), column 1.
- 9. Weight of material (grams), column 1.
- 10. Volume of apparatus or tare (cubic feet), column 1.
- Apparatus or Tare number, column 2.
- 7. Weight of apparatus or tare filled (grams), column 2.
- 8. Weight of apparatus or tare empty (grams), column 2.
- 9. Weight of material (grams), column 2.
- 10. Volume of apparatus or tare (cubic feet), column 2.
- 11. Unit weight of material (pcf), column 2.
- Apparatus or Tare number, column 3.
- 7. Weight of apparatus or tare filled (grams), column 3.
- 8. Weight of apparatus or tare empty (grams), column 3.
- 9. Weight of material (grams), column 3.
- 10. Volume of apparatus or tare (cubic feet), column 3.
- 11. Unit weight of material (pcf), column 3.
- Apparatus or Tare number, column 4.
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 1215 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.
Watch out for one trap here. If your instructions cite a DA form as well, do not assume the numbers are connected. DA numbering belongs to the Army alone; DD numbering belongs to the Department and is administered by not stated or another Department office. The same number in each system means two unrelated forms, so read the prefix before you download.
Plan to repeat this step whenever the form comes up again. Revisions follow directive changes, changes in what data is collected, and updates to notice language. Since nobody notifies you, check not stated at download and you have covered it.
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Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1215?
- DD Form 1215, In-Place Density Determination - Sand-Cone Method, 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?