You need DD Form 2535, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Request for Military Aerial Support. Its official title is DD Form 2535, Request for Military Aerial Support, 20160211 draft.
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.
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.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
Work through the fields one at a time and leave nothing blank. When a box does not apply to you, write N/A rather than skipping it, so the reviewer can see you read the question. Follow the date format printed beside each date field instead of the one you normally use.
When you reach a Privacy Act Statement, read it before you continue. It tells you the legal authority for collecting your information, what the Department does with it, who else may see it, and whether you have to answer at all. That last point is worth knowing before you supply personal identifiers, not after.
Sign only after every other entry is complete. Use ink on a printed copy, or a credentialed digital signature — CAC-based, in a reader that handles it — on an electronic one. A typed name satisfies neither method. Enter the date next to it before you close the file.
Run a final pass over the form. The errors that send it back are the same ones every time: old edition, gaps in required fields, unreadable handwriting on a scan, non-conforming dates, no signature or no date.
For questions about a specific entry, check the form's own instructions, and if that does not settle it, open not stated. The directive controls where they differ.
Download the form
Step one is picking the format. You have PDF to choose from, across 4 pages, with approximately 126 fields to complete.
Choose pdf as your default. Next, click inside a box. A fillable pdf responds by outlining the field and letting you type; the text stays in the document when you save it. A printable pdf does not respond, which tells you to print the page and complete it by hand.
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
- Request number.
- 1. Category Requested. a. Press space bar to mark X if flyover.
- 1.a.(1) Date of event (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 1.a.(2) Type aircraft requested. Mark X if Any.
- 1.a.(2) List specific aircraft requested (optional).
- 1.a.(3) Military service requested. Mark X if All.
- 1.a.(3) List specific military service requested (optional).
- 1.b. Mark X if Static Display.
- 1.b.(1) Date of event (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 1.b.(2) Type aircraft requested. Mark X if Any.
- 1.b.(2) List specific aircraft requested (optional).
- 1.b.(3) Military service requested. Mark X if All.
- 1.b.(3) List specific military service requested (optional).
- 1.c. Mark X if Single Aircraft Demonstration.
- 1.c.(1) Date of event (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 1.c.(2) Type aircraft requested. Mark X if Any.
- 1.c.(2) List specific aircraft requested (optional).
- 1.c.(3) Military service requested. Mark X if All.
- 1.c.(3) List specific military service requested (optional).
- 1.d. Mark X if Other Aerial Support (i.e. Parachute, SAR).
- 1.d.(1) Date of event (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 1.d.(2) Type aircraft requested. Mark X if Any.
- 1.d.(2) List specific aircraft requested (optional).
- 1.d.(3) Military service requested. Mark X if All.
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.
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.
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 2535?
- DD Form 2535, Request for Military Aerial Support, 20160211 draft
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?