You have arrived looking for DD Form 1843. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Demand on Carrier/Contractor. Full title: DD Form 1843, Demand on Carrier/Contractor, May 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.
Then settle the schedule. You are working under not stated, with not stated responsible for the document, and your organization layers its own deadlines on that. Ask before you assume a date.
Finally, decide how you will complete it. You can type into a fillable file or print a blank and write by hand, and the rest of this page walks you through both paths in order.
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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.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
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 1 pages, and you will complete roughly 40 fields.
Download the pdf first. After it opens, test a field with your cursor. Fillable means you type, tab to the next box, and save your work inside the file. Printable means the page is a flat blank, so print it and write your answers in ink.
Type when you can. Printed entries stay legible after the form is scanned, copied and forwarded, and handwriting often does not survive that trip. If you must write by hand, use block capitals and press firmly.
Handle xfdl in two steps. First confirm you have IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible reader on your machine; ordinary pdf software will report the file as broken. Once the viewer is running, download and fill the form.
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. To carrier/contractor. a. Company name and complete address (include zip code).
- c. Government Bill of Lading Number.
- d. M A C/Airway Bill Number.
- e. Contract number.
- b. Amount of government claim.
- 2. To nontemporary storage (NTS) warehouseman. a. Company name and complete address (include zip code).
- b. Amount of government claim.
- c. Dates in temporary storage (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers). (1) From.
- (2) To.
- d. Service Order Number.
- e. Lot number.
- 3. Claim presented in conjunction with shipment of: Press space bar to mark X if household goods.
- Mark X if holdbaggage.
- Mark X if other.
- Specify other type of shipment.
- b. Moved to (city and state).
- 5. Shipment packed. a. By (carrier/contractor name).
- 6. Shipment stored. a. By (carrier/contractor name).
- b. Stored from (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- c. To (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 7. Shipment delivered. a. By (carrier/contractor name).
- b. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 8. Enclosures. X if DD Form 1844.
- X if DD Forms 1840 or 1840R.
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.
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.
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 1843?
- DD Form 1843, Demand on Carrier/Contractor, May 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?