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DD Form 1300 — DD Form 1300, Report of Casualty, February 2011

Report of Casualty

You need DD Form 1300, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Report of Casualty. Its official title is DD Form 1300, Report of Casualty, February 2011.

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.

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.

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.

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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.

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 35 entries.

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

  • Blank space for stamp.
  • 1. Report type.
  • 2. Date prepared. (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers)
  • 3. Service Identification. a. Name (Last, First, Middle and Suffix).
  • 3.b. Social security number. Include dashes.
  • 3.c. Rank.
  • 3.d. Pay grade.
  • 3.e. Occupational code/rating.
  • 3.f. Component.
  • 3.g. Branch.
  • 3.h. Organization.
  • 4. Casualty Information. a. Type.
  • 4.b. Status.
  • 4.c. Category.
  • 4.d. Date of casualty. (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day)
  • 4.e. Place of casualty.
  • 4.f. Circumstances.
  • 4.g. Duty status.
  • 4.h. Body recovered?
  • 5. Background Information. a. Date of birth. (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day)
  • 5.b. Place of birth.
  • 5.c. Country of citizenship.
  • 5.d. Race.
  • 5.e. Ethnicity.

With the form finished, route it to the office named in not stated or in your organization's own instruction. Keep a copy first. People rarely regret having one and frequently regret not having one.

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 1300?
DD Form 1300, Report of Casualty, February 2011
Which edition is current?
Not stated by the publisher
Who is responsible for this form?
Not stated
In which formats can it be downloaded?
PDF

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