You have arrived looking for DD Form 1435. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: COMSEC Maintenance Training and Experience Record. Full title: DD Form 1435, COMSEC Maintenance Training and Experience Record, May 2009.
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.
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.
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.
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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.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.
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Step one is picking the format. You have PDF to choose from, across 2 pages, with approximately 74 fields to complete.
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. Name of technician completing COMSEC maintenance course (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. Rank or grade.
- 3. Service.
- a. Equipment short title, line 1.
- b. Qualified. Answer Yes or No.
- c. Method.
- d. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- e. Remarks. Include school or organization.
- f. Certification. (1) Signature of certifying officer.
- (2) Organization of certifying officer.
- a. Equipment short title, line 2.
- b. Qualified. Answer Yes or No.
- c. Method.
- d. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- e. Remarks.
- f.(1) Signature of certifying officer.
- (2) Organization of certifying officer.
- a. Equipment short title, line 3.
- b. Qualified. Answer Yes or No.
- c. Method.
- d. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- e. Remarks.
- f. (1) Signature of certifying officer.
- (2) Organization of certifying officer.
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.
Be careful when a procedure pairs this form with a service form. Read the prefix, not just the digits. Service forms answer to a service proponent, while DD forms answer to not stated or an equivalent Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Grabbing the wrong prefix gets you a form that has nothing to do with your task.
Come back and check the edition next time you need this form. Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the information collected changes, or when the required notice language is updated, and none of those events reaches you directly. Verifying not stated at the moment you download is the whole defence.
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 1435?
- DD Form 1435, COMSEC Maintenance Training and Experience Record, May 2009
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?