Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 2351. First, know what you are filling: DoD Medical Examination Review Board (DoDMERB) Report of Medical Examination. The document is titled DD Form 2351, DoDMERB Report of Medical Examination, March 2008.
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.
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.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
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
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 2 pages and about 112 entries.
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.
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.
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
- This section is for DoDMERB use only.
- Applicant Data. 1. Date of examination (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 2. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 3. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 4. Date of birth (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 5. Age.
- 6. Sex.
- 7. Race (ethnic group/medically significant).
- 8.a. Applicant mailing address (include zip code).
- b. ROTC code, if applicable.
- 9. Status. Press space bar to mark X in first box if active duty, second box if civilian, or third box if reserve/guard.
- 10. Examiner address and facility code.
- Measurements. 11. Height (to nearest 1/4 inch). a. Standing.
- 11.b. Sitting height.
- 12. Weight (to nearest pound).
- 13. Pulse.
- 14. Blood pressure: systolic.
- Diastolic.
- 14.a. Repeat blood pressure if greater than 140/90: systolic.
- Repeat diastolic.
- Repeat pulse if greater than 99.
- 15. Audiometer. Right: 500.
- Right: 1000.
- Right: 2000.
Now that it is complete, send it where not stated or your local procedure says it goes. Before you do, make yourself a copy — scan it or save the file elsewhere. It costs you nothing and saves you the whole exercise if the original goes missing.
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.
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 2351?
- DD Form 2351, DoDMERB Report of Medical Examination, March 2008
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?