You need DD Form 250-1, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Tanker/Barge Material Inspection and Receiving Report. Its official title is DD Form 250-1, Tanker/Barge Material Inspection and Receiving Report, November 1992.
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.
Last in this stage, choose your method: complete it on screen, or print the blank form and fill it out in pen. The sections below take each route step by step.
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.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.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
Step one is picking the format. You have PDF to choose from, across 1 pages, with approximately 90 fields to complete.
You will not be charged for any of these; the whole set is free. Before you start entering data, save the file to your computer and open it there. Fields behave far more reliably in a desktop reader than in a browser preview.
What the form asks for
- 1. Tanker/barge: Press space bar to mark X in first box if loading report, second box if discharge report.
- 2. Inspection office.
- 3. Report number.
- 4. Agency placing order on shipper, city, state and/or local address (loading).
- 5. Department.
- 6. Prime contract or Purchase Order number.
- 7. Name of prime contractor, city, state, and or local address (loading).
- 8. Storage contract.
- 9. Terminal or refinery shipped from, city, state, and or local address (loading).
- 10. Order number on supplier.
- 11. Shipped to (Receiving activity, City, State, and or local address).
- 12. Bill of Lading number.
- 13. Requisition or request number.
- 14. Cargo number.
- 16. Draft arrival: Fore.
- 16. Draft Arrival: Aft.
- 17. Draft sailing: Fore.
- 17. Draft Sailing: Aft.
- 18. Previous two cargoes: First.
- 15. Vessel.
- 18. Previous two cargoes: Last.
- 19. Prior inspection.
- 20. Condition of shore pipeline.
- 21. Appropriation (loading).
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.
If the form points you to another document, you can find it by number alone. DD numbering runs across the whole Department, so you do not need to work out which service issued it — one number, one form, everywhere.
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.
Do not archive this file and reuse it in a year. Forms are reissued as directives are revised, as data requirements shift, and as statutory notice text is amended. Your protection is simple: download fresh each time and confirm the edition date.
Before you go, note what is not covered here. You have the blank form and instructions for completing it; you do not have legal guidance, and no statement on this page determines what any office will do with your submission. Direct those questions to not stated, to the personnel office that serves you, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 250-1?
- DD Form 250-1, Tanker/Barge Material Inspection and Receiving Report, November 1992
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?