You need DD Form 1351-5, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Quarters and/or Mess, Government. Its official title is DD Form 1351-5, Government Quarters and/or Mess, July 1999.
Next, check the edition. You want not stated, currently carried as not stated by the publisher. Then confirm the form applies to you — this is a Department of Defense form, so you use it whether you serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force or Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction.
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.
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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
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
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 2 pages, and you will complete roughly 57 fields.
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.
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
- 4. Quarters. a. Press space bar to mark X if Government quarters were not available to the above-named member on the following dates or for the following periods.
- Specify dates or periods when government quarters were not available.
- 4.b. Mark X if government quarters were not or will not be available to both the above-named member and his dependents on the following dates or for the following periods:
- Specify dates or periods when government quarters were or will not be available.
- 4.c. Mark X if utilization of government quarters by the above named member is or was impracticable for the following dates or the following periods:
- Specify dates or periods when utilization of quarters is or was impracticable.
- 5. Mess. Mark X as applicable. a. Government mess was not available to the above-named member for the number of meals shown opposite each of the dates or periods specified in columns 1 and 2 below.
- 5.b. Mark X if government mess was not or will not be available to both the above-named member and his dependents for the number of meals shown opposite the following dates or periods.
- 5.c. Mark X if utilization of government mess available at this station by the above-named member is, was, or will be impracticable for the number of meals shown opposite the following dates or periods.
- 5.d. Mark X if officers' open mess was not available to the above named officer for at least two meals on the following dates government quarters were available.
- 6. Remarks, continued.
- 1. Traveler's name: last, first, middle initial.
- 2. Grade.
- 3. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 4. Date of statement: four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- Column 1. Date meals not available (line 1). Enter all dates as four digit year, two digit month and two digit day, no spaces or punctuation marks.
- Column 2. Number of meals not available.
- Date, line 2.
- Number of meals not available.
- Date, line 3.
- Number of meals not available.
- Date, line 4.
- Number of meals not available.
- Date, line 5.
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.
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.
Finally, understand the limits of what you have read. This page distributes a published Department of Defense form and describes how to fill it out. It does not give legal or procedural advice, and it cannot promise any outcome for your particular case. For that, contact not stated, your administrative office, or the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1351-5?
- DD Form 1351-5, Government Quarters and/or Mess, July 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?