You need DD Form 1443, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Outage and Restoration Record. Its official title is DD Form 1443, Outage and Restoration Record, May 1992.
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.
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.
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.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
Look up an unclear item on the form face before anywhere else, then in not stated. Should the two texts conflict, the directive is the one you follow.
Download the form
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 2 pages and about 170 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.
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
- 1. Reportable. a. DISA. Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- b. DECCO. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 2. Ticket number.
- 3. Facility: a. Send, line 1.
- b. Receive.
- 4. Facility, link, trunk I D.
- 5. Channel number.
- 6. Command Communications Service Designator (CCSD)/Communications Service Authorization (CSA).
- 7. Telecommunications Service Priority (TSP).
- 8. Time out: date, time, group.
- 9. Time in: date, time, group.
- 10. Reason for Outage (RFO).
- 11. Coordination: a. facility: user. b. out.
- c. in.
- 3.a. Send, line 2.
- b. Receive.
- 4. Facility, link, trunk I D.
- 5. Channel number.
- 6. CCSD/CSA.
- 7. TSP.
- 8. Time out: date, time, group.
- 9. Time in: date, time, group.
- 10. Reason for Outage (RFO).
- 11. Coordination: a. facility: TCF. b. out.
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.
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.
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 1443?
- DD Form 1443, Outage and Restoration Record, May 1992
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?