You have arrived looking for DD Form 1746. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Application for Assignment to Housing. Full title: DD Form 1746, Application for Assignment to Housing, September 1993..
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.
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.
Now fill it in. Work from the top of the page downward, and do not jump ahead — the identifying block comes first, the substance of your entry second, the certification last. Later boxes often depend on what you put at the top.
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.
Take the fields in order and answer all of them. Mark inapplicable items N/A instead of leaving white space. When you reach a date, copy the format shown on the form, since a reviewer reading a different convention may misread your entry entirely.
When you reach a Privacy Act Statement, read it before you continue. It tells you the legal authority for collecting your information, what the Department does with it, who else may see it, and whether you have to answer at all. That last point is worth knowing before you supply personal identifiers, not after.
Sign only after every other entry is complete. Use ink on a printed copy, or a credentialed digital signature — CAC-based, in a reader that handles it — on an electronic one. A typed name satisfies neither method. Enter the date next to it before you close the file.
Run a final pass over the form. The errors that send it back are the same ones every time: old edition, gaps in required fields, unreadable handwriting on a scan, non-conforming dates, no signature or no date.
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.
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Step one is picking the format. You have PDF to choose from, across 2 pages, with approximately 90 fields to complete.
Check your software before choosing xfdl. That format belongs to IBM Lotus Forms, long used for Defense form distribution, and it needs the matching viewer. Get the viewer installed, then come back for the file.
All of it downloads free. When you are ready to work, do this: save the file locally, then open it in a full pdf application. Browsers often ignore field properties, and you can lose everything you typed.
What the form asks for
- 1. Type service desired. a. Press space bar to mark X if military housing.
- 1.b. Mark X if housing referral.
- Section 1 - Applicant information. 2. Name of sponsor: last, first, middle initial.
- 3. Pay grade.
- 4. Social security number (include dashes) or other identification number.
- 5. D O D component.
- 6. Address (Street, city, State, zip code).
- 7. Telephone number. a. Home (Include area code).
- b. Duty (DSN).
- 8. Status of applicant. X first box if military member, second box if military spouse, third box if civilian, or fourth box if foreign national.
- 9. Marital status.
- 10. I am separated from my dependents: X first box if voluntarily, second box if involuntarily.
- 11. I request housing for: X first box if self only, second box if self and dependents.
- 13. Installation/organization transferred to.
- 12. Installation/organization transferred from.
- 14.a. Military spouse: effective rank/rate date.
- Section 2 - Military career information (Civilians skip to Item 15). 14.a. Military applicant. Effective rank/rate date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- b. Active duty service computation date: military spouse.
- c. Time remaining on active duty: military applicant.
- c. Time remaining on active duty: military spouse.
- b. Active duty service computation date: military applicant.
- d. Date of effective change in duty station: military spouse.
- d. Date of effective change in duty station: military applicant.
- e. Report date: military spouse.
Submit the completed form through the channel not stated or your local guidance specifies. Save a copy for yourself before it leaves your hands, whether that means a scan, a photograph or a duplicate file.
When DD Form 1746 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.
Watch out for one trap here. If your instructions cite a DA form as well, do not assume the numbers are connected. DA numbering belongs to the Army alone; DD numbering belongs to the Department and is administered by not stated or another Department office. The same number in each system means two unrelated forms, so read the prefix before you download.
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.
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 1746?
- DD Form 1746, Application for Assignment to Housing, September 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?