Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 1911. First, know what you are filling: Materiel Courier Receipt. The document is titled DD Form 1911, Materiel Courier Receipt, April 2010.
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.
Begin at the top and move down. Enter your identifying data first, then the body of the form, then the signature block. The sequence is printed in that order because entries below frequently follow from entries above.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.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 1 pages, with approximately 95 fields to complete.
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
- Shipper's control/document number.
- Shipper.
- Shipper supply account number.
- Destination.
- Destination supply account number.
- First shipment transfer. Location of transfer.
- Date of transfer (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Recipient's printed name (last, first, middle initial).
- Organization or account number.
- Signature.
- Second shipment transfer. Location of transfer.
- Date of transfer (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Recipient's printed name (last, first, middle initial).
- Organization or account number.
- Signature.
- Third shipment transfer. Location of transfer.
- Date of transfer (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Recipient's printed name (last, first, middle initial).
- Organization or account number.
- Signature.
- Fourth shipment transfer. Location of transfer.
- Date of transfer (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Recipient's printed name (last, first, middle initial).
- Organization or account number.
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.
Here is where people go wrong. They see a number in an instruction and download whichever form matches it. But DA and DD are separate systems — Army-specific in one case, Department-wide under not stated in the other — so check which series you were sent to before you take the file.
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.
Before you go, note what is not covered here. You have the blank form and instructions for completing it; you do not have legal guidance, and no statement on this page determines what any office will do with your submission. Direct those questions to not stated, to the personnel office that serves you, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1911?
- DD Form 1911, Materiel Courier Receipt, April 2010
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?