You have arrived looking for DD Form 1857. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Temporary Commercial Storage At Government Expense. Full title: DD Form 1857, Temporary Commercial Storage at Government Expense, September 1998..
Your second step is the edition, not stated, listed as not stated. Your third is scope. Because the number carries a DD prefix, you use the same blank as every other military department and defense agency; no service-specific version exists for you to hunt down.
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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
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 27 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.
Go with the typed route whenever the choice is yours. Consider what happens after you submit: the copy gets scanned, forwarded and filed, and each pass costs handwriting some legibility. Block letters help if you are stuck with a pen.
What the form asks for
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- Section 2 - Member's Statement of Facts. 1. Additional temporary storage necessary due to: Mark all that apply. Press space bar to mark X if a. Serious illness of the member.
- X if b. erious illness or death of a dependent.
- X if c. Impending assignment to government quarters.
- X if d. Directed temporary duty after arrival at permanent duty station.
- X if e. Nonavailability of suitable civilian housing.
- X if f. Awaiting completion of residence under construction.
- X if g. Other reason.
- Specify other reason.
- 2. Member information. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Rrank.
- c. Social security number.
- d. Signature.
- e. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Section 3 - Approval. 3. Installation name.
- 4. Installation address. Include zip code.
- 5. Date approved (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- All storage authorization will expire on: (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 9.a. Applicable special order.
- b. Paragraph.
- c. Headquarters.
- d. Dated. (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- e. Accounting classification.
- 10. Transportation officer information. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
Now that it is complete, send it where not stated or your local procedure says it goes. Before you do, make yourself a copy — scan it or save the file elsewhere. It costs you nothing and saves you the whole exercise if the original goes missing.
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 1857?
- DD Form 1857, Temporary Commercial Storage at Government Expense, September 1998.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?