You have arrived looking for DD Form 2266. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Hometown News Release Information. Full title: DD Form 2266, Hometown News Release Information, June 1995.
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.
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.
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.
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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
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 73 fields to complete.
Check your software before choosing xfdl. That format belongs to IBM Lotus Forms, long used for Defense form distribution, and it needs the matching viewer. Get the viewer installed, then come back for the file.
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. P A O code, first number
- 1. P A O code, second number
- 1. P A O code, third number
- Item 2. Social security number, for identification only. Enter first number.
- Social security number, second number.
- social security number, third number.
- Social security number, fourth number.
- Social security number, fifth number
- Social security number, sixth number
- Social security number, seventh number
- Social Security number, eighth number
- Social security number, ninth number
- For releasing public affairs office use only.
- 3. Branch of service. Press space bar to mark X in first box if Army, second box if Air Force, third box if Navy, fourth box if Marine Corps, or fifth box if Coast Guard.
- 4. Status. X first box if active, second box if Reserve, third box if National Guard, or fourth box if civilian.
- 5. Rank.
- 6. Pay grade.
- 7. First name, middle initial, last name.
- 8. Sex.
- 9. Event, for example: arrival, promoted to Sergeant, received commendation medal, etc. Citation needed.
- 10. Your living parents, stepparents, guardians, aunt, uncle, grandparents or adult siblings. Item 10 a 1. First name, middle initial, last name.
- 10.a.2. Relationship to you.
- 10 a 3. Address: number and street.
- 10.a.4. City.
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.
When DD Form 2266 references another form, search on the series and number. Because DD numbers are common to every military department, the number by itself identifies exactly one document.
Watch out for one trap here. If your instructions cite a DA form as well, do not assume the numbers are connected. DA numbering belongs to the Army alone; DD numbering belongs to the Department and is administered by not stated or another Department office. The same number in each system means two unrelated forms, so read the prefix before you download.
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.
Finally, understand the limits of what you have read. This page distributes a published Department of Defense form and describes how to fill it out. It does not give legal or procedural advice, and it cannot promise any outcome for your particular case. For that, contact not stated, your administrative office, or the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2266?
- DD Form 2266, Hometown News Release Information, June 1995
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?