Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 1740. First, know what you are filling: Food Inspection Stamp Record. The document is titled DD Form 1740, Food Inspection Stamp Record, January 2000.
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.
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.
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.
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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
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 1 pages and about 43 entries.
Whichever you pick, you pay nothing — every format here is a free download. One last tip: open your pdf in a desktop reader rather than in a browser tab, because browser viewers sometimes drop the interactive fields you need.
What the form asks for
- 4. Record of issue and turn in. a. Date issued (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day), line 1.
- 4.b. Signature of assigned inspector.
- 4.c. Date turned in (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 1. Organization or Unit.
- 2. Stamp serial number.
- 3. Stamp impression.
- 4.a. Date issued, line 2.
- 4.b. Signature of assigned inspector.
- 4.c. Date turned in.
- 4.a. Date issued, line 3.
- 4.b. Signature of assigned inspector.
- 4.c. Date turned in.
- 5. Record of inventory. a. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day), line 1.
- 5.b. Signature of inventory officer.
- 5.a. Date, line 2.
- 5.b. Signature of inventory officer.
- 5.a. Date, line 3.
- 5.b. Signature of inventory officer.
- 5.a. Date, line 4.
- 5.b. Signature of inventory officer.
- 5.a. Date, line 5.
- 5.b. Signature of inventory officer.
- 5.a. Date, line 6.
- 5.b. Signature of inventory officer.
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 1740?
- DD Form 1740, Food Inspection Stamp Record, January 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?