Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 1225. First, know what you are filling: Storage Quality Control Report. The document is titled DD Form 1225, Storage Quality Control Report, September 2001..
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.
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.
Now fill it in. Work from the top of the page downward, and do not jump ahead — the identifying block comes first, the substance of your entry second, the certification last. Later boxes often depend on what you put at the top.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
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.
Download the form
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 1 pages and about 72 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.
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.
Check your software before choosing xfdl. That format belongs to IBM Lotus Forms, long used for Defense form distribution, and it needs the matching viewer. Get the viewer installed, then come back for the file.
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
- R I C.
- 1. Date generated: two digit day, three letter month, four digit year.
- 2. Report number.
- 3. Managing activity address.
- 4. Reporting activity or submitter address.
- 5. National stock number.
- 6. Type of inspection. Press space bar to mark X in first box if cyclic, second box if shelf life expiration, third box if special, fourth box if COSIS, fifth box if outbound shipment, or sixth box if other.
- 7. Nomenclature.
- 8. CAGE code and part or model number (if applicable).
- 9. Serial number (if applicable).
- 10. Condition code.
- 11. Lot/batch/control number.
- 12. Expiration date: Two digit month, four digit year.
- 13. Unit price.
- 14. Unit of issue.
- 15. Contractor considered liable? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 16. Contractor or Packed By, as applicable.
- 17. Contract number (when applicable).
- 18. Date of manufacture: two digit month, four digit year.
- 19.a. Date of pack: two digit month, four digit year.
- 19.b. Date of last COSIS inspection: two digit month, four digit year.
- 20. Method of preservation.
- 21. Level of packing. X first box if A, second box if B, or third box if minimum.
- 22. Condition of packing. X first box if satisfactory, second box if unsatisfactory.
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.
If the form points you to another document, you can find it by number alone. DD numbering runs across the whole Department, so you do not need to work out which service issued it — one number, one form, everywhere.
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.
Before you go, note what is not covered here. You have the blank form and instructions for completing it; you do not have legal guidance, and no statement on this page determines what any office will do with your submission. Direct those questions to not stated, to the personnel office that serves you, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1225?
- DD Form 1225, Storage Quality Control Report, September 2001.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?