Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 1610. First, know what you are filling: Request and Authorization for TDY Travel of DoD Personnel. The document is titled DD Form 1610, Request and Authorization for TDY Travel of DoD Personnel, May 2003`.
Your second step is the edition, not stated, listed as not stated. Your third is scope. Because the number carries a DD prefix, you use the same blank as every other military department and defense agency; no service-specific version exists for you to hunt down.
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.
Last in this stage, choose your method: complete it on screen, or print the blank form and fill it out in pen. The sections below take each route step by step.
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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.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 46 fields.
Choose pdf as your default. Next, click inside a box. A fillable pdf responds by outlining the field and letting you type; the text stays in the document when you save it. A printable pdf does not respond, which tells you to print the page and complete it by hand.
Go with the typed route whenever the choice is yours. Consider what happens after you submit: the copy gets scanned, forwarded and filed, and each pass costs handwriting some legibility. Block letters help if you are stuck with a pen.
What the form asks for
- 3. Social security number of requestor. Include dashes.
- 1. Date of request (four digit year, two digit month, two digit day).
- Request for Official Travel. 2. Name of requestor (last, first, middle initial)
- 5. Location of permanent duty station.
- 6. Organizational element.
- 7. Duty telephone number. Include area code.
- 8. Type of authorization.
- 9. T.D.Y. purpose. See JTR, appendix H.
- 10.a. Approximate number of T.D.Y. days including travel time.
- 10.b. Proceed date. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 11. Travel itinerary.
- Press space bar to mark X if variation from itinerary is authorized.
- 12. Transportation mode. a. Commercial. Mark X if by rail.
- Mark X if by air.
- Mark X if by bus.
- Mark X if by ship.
- b. Government travel. Mark X if by air.
- Mark X if by government vehicle.
- Mark X if by ship.
- c. Local transportation. Mark X if by rental car.
- Mark X if by taxi.
- Mark X if other local transportation.
- If local transportation is by privately owned conveyance, enter rate per mile.
- Privately owned conveyance. X first box if advantageous to the government, second if reimbursement is limited to cost of common carrier transportation and per diem.
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.
When DD Form 1610 references another form, search on the series and number. Because DD numbers are common to every military department, the number by itself identifies exactly one document.
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.
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 1610?
- DD Form 1610, Request and Authorization for TDY Travel of DoD Personnel, May 2003`
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?