Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 1299. First, know what you are filling: Application for Shipment and/or Storage of Personal Property. The document is titled DD 1299, Application for Shipment and/or Storage of Personal Property, September 1998.
Then look at the edition date: not stated, publisher status not stated. After that, ask whether the form covers your situation. It almost certainly does regardless of your branch — DD forms run Department-wide rather than through a single service.
Then settle the schedule. You are working under not stated, with not stated responsible for the document, and your organization layers its own deadlines on that. Ask before you assume a date.
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.
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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
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
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 2 pages, and you will complete roughly 61 fields.
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.
Type when you can. Printed entries stay legible after the form is scanned, copied and forwarded, and handwriting often does not survive that trip. If you must write by hand, use block capitals and press firmly.
What the form asks for
- 1. Date prepared (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 2. Shipment number.
- 3. Name of preparing office.
- 4. To (Responsible Origin Personal Property Shipping Office). a. Name.
- b. Address (Street, Suite Number, City, State, ZIP Code).
- 5. Name of destination personal property shipping office.
- 6. Member or employee information. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Rank/grade.
- c. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- d. Agency.
- 7. Request action be taken to transport or store the following: a. Household goods/unaccompanied baggage/items/no. of containers (quantity estimate): (1) Pounds.
- (2) Pounds of professional books, papers and equipment (or "none" if not applicable).
- (3) Expensive and valuable items (number of cartons).
- b. Mobile home information. (1) Serial number.
- (2) Length (dimensions in feet and inches).
- (3) Width (dimensions in feet and inches).
- (4) Height (dimensions in feet and inches).
- (5) Type expando (describe).
- c. Mobile home services requested. X if contents packed.
- X if mobile home blocked.
- X if mobile home unblocked.
- X if stored at origin.
- X if stored at destination.
- 8. This shipment/storage is required incident to the following change of station orders: a. Type of orders. X first box if permanent, second box if temporary.
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.
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.
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 1299?
- DD 1299, Application for Shipment and/or Storage of Personal Property, September 1998
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?