Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 1216. First, know what you are filling: Bituminous Mix Components, Specific Gravity of. The document is titled DD Form 1216, Specific Gravity of Bituminous Mix Components, December 1965.
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.
Before you download, pick your approach — editable file or printed page. What follows covers the formats first, then the entries, then what you do afterward.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.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 115 entries.
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
- Date.
- Project.
- Job.
- Coarse aggregate. Material: sieve.
- Retained on: sieve.
- Sample number, column 1.
- Sample number, column 2.
- Sample number, column 3.
- Sample number, column 4.
- 1. Weight of oven - dry aggregate (grams).
- 2. Weight of saturated aggregate in water.
- 1. Weight of oven - dry aggregate.
- 2. Weight of saturated aggregate in water.
- 1. Weight of oven - dry aggregate.
- 2. Weight of saturated aggregate in water.
- 1. Weight of oven - dry aggregate.
- 2. Weight of saturated aggregate in water.
- 3. Difference (line 1 minus line 2).
- 3. Difference (line 1 minus line 2).
- 3. Difference (line 1 minus line 2).
- 3. Difference (line 1 minus line 2).
- Apparent specific gravity, G (line 1 divided by line 3).
- Fine aggregate. Material passing number: sieve.
- Sample number, column 1.
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 1216 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.
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 1216?
- DD Form 1216, Specific Gravity of Bituminous Mix Components, December 1965
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?