You need DD Form 1685, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Data Exchange and/or Proposed Revision of Catalog Data. Its official title is DD Form 1685, Data Exchange and/or Proposed Revision of Catalog , August 1993.
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.
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.
Check the edition before you type a word. The date appears on the face of the form; it should read not stated. When it does not, discard the file and take a fresh copy from this page. Department-level revisions replace the blank across all services simultaneously, which means an old printout can be out of step everywhere.
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
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 2 pages and about 112 entries.
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.
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
- Enter M O E rule to be deleted.
- 5.b., line 1 of 6. Mark X if used.
- 5.b., line 1. Enter L to R.
- 5.b., line 1. Enter C A G E code.
- 5.b., line 1. Enter proposed reference numbers.
- 5.b., line 1. R N F C
- 5.b., line 1. R N C C
- 5.b., line 1. R N V C
- 5.b., line 1. D A C
- 5.b., line 1. R N S C
- 5.b., line 1. R N A A C
- 5.b., line 2. Mark X if used.
- 5.b., line 3. Mark X if used.
- 5.b., line 4. Mark X if used.
- 5.b., line 5. Mark X if used.
- 5.b., line 6. Mark X if used.
- 5.b., line 2. Enter L to R.
- 5.b., line 3. Enter L to R.
- 5.b., line 4. Enter L to R.
- 5.b., line 5. Enter L to R.
- 5.b., line 6. Enter L to R.
- 5.b., line 2. Enter C A G E code.
- 5.b., line 3. Enter C A G E code.
- 5.b., line 4. Enter C A G E code.
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.
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.
One thing this page does not do: tell you whether your submission will be accepted. We publish the document and explain how to complete it, and that is where our role ends. Nothing here is legal advice. Take questions about eligibility, applicability or procedure to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1685?
- DD Form 1685, Data Exchange and/or Proposed Revision of Catalog , August 1993
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?