You have arrived looking for DD Form 2017. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Route Order Amendment. Full title: DD Form 2017, Route Order Amendment, September 2005.
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.
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.
Before you download, pick your approach — editable file or printed page. What follows covers the formats first, then the entries, then what you do afterward.
Now fill it in. Work from the top of the page downward, and do not jump ahead — the identifying block comes first, the substance of your entry second, the certification last. Later boxes often depend on what you put at the top.
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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.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
Step one is picking the format. You have PDF to choose from, across 1 pages, with approximately 37 fields to complete.
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.
Prefer typing over writing. Your form will likely be scanned and emailed onward, and typed text reproduces at every stage while pen strokes fade or blur. When you do write, print in capitals so the receiving clerk can read it.
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. Date of request (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no separators).
- Part 1 - Request for Amendment. 2. To (SDDC Routing Authority).
- 3. From (name, address and zip code of requesting agency).
- 4. Route order number.
- 6. Type of movement. Press space bar to mark X if rail.
- Mark X if motor.
- Mark X if other.
- 5. Identification number of requesting agency.
- Specify other type of movement.
- 8. Consignee (name and address).
- 7. Consignor (show actual shipper).
- 9. Original carrier(s).
- 10. Amended carrier(s).
- 12. Vessel involved? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 14. Date vessel comes on berth (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 15. Complete commodity description.
- 16. Remarks (reason for amendment).
- 17. Requester. a. Typed name (last, first, middle initial).
- 17.b. Title.
- 17c. Telephone number (including area code).
- 17.d. Signature.
- Part 2 - Confirmation of Amendment. 18. To (requesting agency).
- 19. From (SDDC routing authority).
- 20.a. Routed by (name of SDDC technician).
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.
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 2017?
- DD Form 2017, Route Order Amendment, September 2005
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?