You have arrived looking for DD Form 1795. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Combined Mechanical Analysis (Sedimentation Test). Full title: DD Form 1795, Combined Mechanical Analysis (Sedimentation Test), February 1971.
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.
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.
Your first action is verification. Find the edition date on the form and match it against not stated. A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
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
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 1 pages, and you will complete roughly 116 fields.
Take the pdf if you are unsure. Then check which kind you have: if the boxes highlight when you click them, you have a fillable pdf and can type straight into it, and your entries save with the file. If nothing highlights, you have a printable pdf — send it to a printer and use black ink.
Prefer typing over writing. Your form will likely be scanned and emailed onward, and typed text reproduces at every stage while pen strokes fade or blur. When you do write, print in capitals so the receiving clerk can read it.
You will not be charged for any of these; the whole set is free. Before you start entering data, save the file to your computer and open it there. Fields behave far more reliably in a desktop reader than in a browser preview.
What the form asks for
- Date.
- Project.
- Excavation.
- Sample number.
- Weight of total sample.
- Weight passing number 10 sieve.
- Percent passing number 10 sieve.
- Weight retained on number 10 sieve (grams).
- Weight retained on number 200 sieve (grams).
- Total weight finer than number 200 sieve (grams).
- Washing loss (grams).
- Sieve analysis. 2 inch sieve or screen; opening 50.8 mm: weight of sieve (grams).
- Weight of sieve and sample (grams).
- Weight retained on sieve (grams).
- Cumulative weight retained (grams).
- Percent retained.
- Percent finer.
- 1 inch sieve or screen; opening 25.4 mm: weight of sieve (grams).
- Weight of sieve and sample (grams).
- Weight retained on sieve (grams).
- Cumulative weight retained (grams).
- Percent retained.
- Percent finer.
- 3/4 inch sieve or screen; opening 19.0 mm: weight of sieve (grams).
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.
When DD Form 1795 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.
Be careful when a procedure pairs this form with a service form. Read the prefix, not just the digits. Service forms answer to a service proponent, while DD forms answer to not stated or an equivalent Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Grabbing the wrong prefix gets you a form that has nothing to do with your task.
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.
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Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1795?
- DD Form 1795, Combined Mechanical Analysis (Sedimentation Test), February 1971
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?