You have arrived looking for DD Form 1789. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Armed Forces Professional Entertainment Evaluation. Full title: DD Form 1789, Armed Forces Professional Entertainment Evaluation, February 1986.
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.
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
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 2 pages, and you will complete roughly 23 fields.
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. Entertainment unit number.
- 2. Entertainment unit name.
- 3. To (official mailing address).
- 4. From (official mailing address of organization/unit submitting evaluation).
- Part I - recapitulation. 5. Total performance.
- 6. Number of performances by service. a. Army.
- b. Air Force.
- c. Navy.
- d. Marine Corps.
- e. Coast Guard.
- f. Other.
- 7. Total attendance.
- 7. Cancelled Performances and Reasons.
- 9. Unit is rated: Press space bar to mark X in first box if outstanding, second box if good, third box if average, fourth box if fair, or fifth box if unsatisfactory.
- Explain if Outstanding or Unsatisfactory rating.
- 10. Unit is desired for additional tours: X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 11. Unit is recommended for Department of Defense Certificate of Esteem: X first box if yes, second box if no.
- If no, explain.
- 12. Remarks (continue explanations, any other comments or recommendations).
- Part III - Authentication. 13. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 14. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 15. Signature.
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
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.
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.
Come back and check the edition next time you need this form. Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the information collected changes, or when the required notice language is updated, and none of those events reaches you directly. Verifying not stated at the moment you download is the whole defence.
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 1789?
- DD Form 1789, Armed Forces Professional Entertainment Evaluation, February 1986
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?