You have arrived looking for DD Form 1952. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Dosimeter Application and Record of Occupational Radiation Exposure. Full title: DD Form 1952, Dosimetry Application and Record of Previous Radiation Exposure, September 2011.
Then look at the edition date: not stated, publisher status not stated. After that, ask whether the form covers your situation. It almost certainly does regardless of your branch — DD forms run Department-wide rather than through a single service.
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.
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.
Check the edition before you type a word. The date appears on the face of the form; it should read not stated. When it does not, discard the file and take a fresh copy from this page. Department-level revisions replace the blank across all services simultaneously, which means an old printout can be out of step everywhere.
For questions about a specific entry, check the form's own instructions, and if that does not settle it, open not stated. The directive controls where they differ.
Download the form
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 2 pages and about 57 entries.
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
- 1. Full name (last, first, middle).
- 2. Date of birth (2 digit day, 2 digit month, 4 digit year).
- 3. Social security number.
- 4. Duty section (department, unit, etc., or company if contractor).
- 5. Job title.
- 6. Duty phone number.
- 7. Email address.
- 8. Have you worn a dosimeter issued by this command in the past? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 9. Duty status. X first box if permanent, second box if temporary (6 weeks or less).
- 10. If temporary, mailing address (street, city, state, and zip code).
- Occupational Exposure History. 11. Name of employer, line 1. If you have not previously been issued a dosimeter, enter "None" and go to Remarks section.
- 12. Employer address (street, city, state, zip code).
- 13. From (month).
- 13. From (year).
- 14. To (month).
- 14. To (year).
- 11. Name of employer, line 2.
- 12. Employer address.
- 13. From (month).
- 13. From (year).
- 14. To (month).
- 14. To (year).
- 11. Name of employer, line 3. Attach a list if more entries are needed.
- 12. Employer address.
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.
Should you need a related form, look it up by its number. The DD sequence is Department-wide, which makes your search simple: no service qualifier, no branch-specific variant to track down.
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.
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.
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 1952?
- DD Form 1952, Dosimetry Application and Record of Previous Radiation Exposure, September 2011
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?