Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 1863. First, know what you are filling: Accessorial Services-Mobile Home. The document is titled DD Form 1863, Accessorial Services - Mobile Homes, 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.
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.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
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
Step one is picking the format. You have PDF to choose from, across 2 pages, with approximately 152 fields to complete.
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
- Section 2 - Certificate of carrier. 8. Carrier furnished materials/performed services as indicated hereon. Press space bar to mark X if at Origin.
- 8. Mark X if at destination.
- 8. Mark X if other.
- 18.j. Preparation for movement. (1) Description.
- 18.j.(2) Unit price.
- 18.j.(3) Charge or no charge (N/C).
- 18.k. Appliance servicing. (1) Description.
- 18.k.(2) Unit price.
- 18.k.(3) Charge or no charge (N/C).
- 18.l. Other, line 2.
- 18.l. (1) Description.
- 18.l.(2) Unit price.
- 18.l.(3) Charge or no charge (N/C).
- 18.l. Other, line 3.
- 18.l. (1) Description.
- 18.l.(2) Unit price.
- 18.l.(3) Charge or no charge (N/C).
- 18.l. Other, line 4.
- 18.l. (1) Description.
- 18.l.(2) Unit price.
- 18.l.(3) Charge or no charge (N/C).
- 18.l. Other, line 5.
- 18.l. (1) Description.
- 18.l.(2) Unit price.
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.
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.
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 1863?
- DD Form 1863, Accessorial Services - Mobile Homes, 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?