You need DD Form 1616, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Department of Defense (DoD) Transportation Agreement Transfer of Professional School Personnel Outside CONUS (OCONUS). Its official title is DD Form 1616, Department of Defense Transportation Agreement Transfer of Professional School Personnel Outside Conus (Oconus) (Outside the 48 Continguous States and the District of Columbia), November 1999..
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.
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.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
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.
Download the form
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 2 pages, and you will complete roughly 12 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
- A. Employee name (Last, First, Middle Initial).
- B. Type of agreement. Press space bar to mark X in first box if initial, second box if renewal, third box if permanent change of station, or fourth box if renewal in conjunction with PCS.
- C. Employee Social Security Number. Do not include dashes.
- D. Report date to new or first Permanent Duty Station (P D S) (four digit year, two digit month, two digit day).
- E. Last P D S Location.
- F. Actual residence at time of appointment (To be determined at time of initial agreement).
- 2.a. Number of school years.
- G. Employee signature.
- H. Date Signed (four digit year, two digit month, two digit day).
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- I. Other remarks (To be completed by personnel office or employing agency officials only.)
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.
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 1616?
- DD Form 1616, Department of Defense Transportation Agreement Transfer of Professional School Personnel Outside Conus (Oconus) (Outside the 48 Continguous States and the District of Columbia), November 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?