Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 1719. First, know what you are filling: Voluntary Education Program Report, DoD. The document is titled DD Form 1719, DoD Voluntary Education Program Report, February 2000.
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.
Once you know the form fits, find out when you file it. not stated sets the requirement, and not stated maintains the form itself. Your own command or agency adds local timing on top of that, so ask your administrative office if the deadline matters to you.
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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
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
Step one is picking the format. You have PDF to choose from, across 3 pages, with approximately 200 fields to complete.
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
- Section 1 - General information. 1. Military department.
- 2. Report for fiscal year.
- 3. Reporting official.
- 4. Reporting date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 5. Telephone numbers. a. DSN.
- b. Commercial (include area code).
- 6. Military strength (include Warrant Officers with officer counts in all blocks).
- b. Enlisted.
- c. Total.
- 7. Department education levels. a. Officers. (1) Non-high school graduates.
- (2) High school graduates or equivalent.
- (3) Degrees. (a) AS and/or AA.
- (b) BS and/or BA.
- (c) MS and/or MA.
- (d) Doctorate.
- 7.b. Enlisted. (1) Non-high school graduates.
- (2) High school graduates or equivalent.
- (3) Degrees. (a) AS and/or AA.
- (b) BS and/or BA.
- (c) MS and/or MA.
- (d) Doctorate.
- 8.b. Completions. (1) Number.
- (2) TA cost.
- (3) TA cost.
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.
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.
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 1719?
- DD Form 1719, DoD Voluntary Education Program Report, February 2000
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?