Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 2268. First, know what you are filling: Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) Batch Transmittal. The document is titled DD Form 2268, DEERS Batch Transmittal, June 1987.
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.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.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 2 pages, and you will complete roughly 25 fields.
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.
What the form asks for
- 1.b. Originating office/code, 27 character limit.
- 1.c. Mailing address (include street address, city, state and zip code). Two lines, 29 characters each. Line 1.
- 1.c. Mailing address, line 2.
- 3. Number of documents enclosed.
- 4. Transmittal number. Enter branch of service of submitting office. Use capital A for Army, N for navy, M for marine corps, F for air force, P for Coast Guard, E for Public Health Service, I for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and O for other.
- This field is the first field for the 2 character army and navy code, or the eight character U I C or P A S code, or the R U C dash M C C or the O P F A C. If appropriate identifier code for your organization is less than 6 to 8 characters and doesn't require the army or navy command code, precede it with zeros so that each field is filled in.
- Second field for Army and Navy command codes or enter zero, if U I C or P A S codem R U C dash M C C or O P F A C codes are less than eight digits
- Enter third digit of 6 digit code
- Enter fourth digit of 6 digit code
- Enter fifth digit of 6 digit code
- Enter sixth digit of 6 digit code
- Enter first of three digit Julian date code, for example March 9 19 86 is zero 6 8.
- Enter second of three digit Julian date code.
- Enter third of three digit Julian date code
- Enter first of 3 digit batch sequence number. For the first new batch of each new day of year begin with 0 0 1.
- Enter second of 3 digit batch sequence number.
- Enter third of 3 digit batch sequence number.
- Begin entering 6 digit U I C or P A S code or R U C dash M C C or O P F A C here
- 1. From. a. Name of organization, 27 character limit.
- Enter second digit of 6 digit code
- 5. Individual forwarding batch. a. Signature.
- 5.c. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 5.b. Phone numbers. (1) DSN.
- 5.b.(2) Commercial phone 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.
When DD Form 2268 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.
Be careful when a procedure pairs this form with a service form. Read the prefix, not just the digits. Service forms answer to a service proponent, while DD forms answer to not stated or an equivalent Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Grabbing the wrong prefix gets you a form that has nothing to do with your task.
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.
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 2268?
- DD Form 2268, DEERS Batch Transmittal, June 1987
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?