You have arrived looking for DD Form 2033. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Basic Operations Chart. Full title: DD Form 2033, Basic Operations Chart Form, September 76.
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.
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.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
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 72 fields.
Whichever you pick, you pay nothing — every format here is a free download. One last tip: open your pdf in a desktop reader rather than in a browser tab, because browser viewers sometimes drop the interactive fields you need.
What the form asks for
- 1. Type of chart.
- 2. Method. Press space bar to mark X in first box if present, second box if proposed.
- 3. Operation.
- 4. Operation number.
- 5. Machine number.
- 6. Part name.
- 7. Part number.
- 8. Operator.
- 9. Chart by:
- 10. Date charted.
- 11. Left hand description, line 1.
- 12. Symbols. Left hand.
- Right hand symbol.
- 13. Right hand description.
- 11. Left hand description, line 2.
- 12. Symbols. Left hand.
- Right hand symbol.
- 13. Right hand description.
- 11. Left hand description, line 3.
- 12. Symbols. Left hand.
- Right hand symbol.
- 13. Right hand description.
- 11. Left hand description, line 4.
- 12. Symbols. Left hand.
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.
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 2033?
- DD Form 2033, Basic Operations Chart Form, September 76
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?