You need DD Form 2536, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Request for Armed Forces Participation in Public Events (Non- Aviation). Its official title is DD Form 2536, Request for Armed Forces Participation in Public Events (Non-Aviation), 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.
After that, turn to timing. The requirement comes from not stated; the form is maintained by not stated. Local implementing instructions fill in the dates, so check with the office that will receive your copy.
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.
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.
Check the edition before you type a word. The date appears on the face of the form; it should read not stated. When it does not, discard the file and take a fresh copy from this page. Department-level revisions replace the blank across all services simultaneously, which means an old printout can be out of step everywhere.
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 2 pages, with approximately 40 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
- Section I - Event Data. 1. Specific requirement (i.e., band, marching unit, color guard, tank, etc.).
- 2. Date of event: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 3. Time of event: from.
- To.
- 4. Title of event (website, if applicable).
- 5. Expected attendance.
- 6. Site of event (park, auditorium, etc.).
- 7. Address of event (street, city, state, zip code).
- 8. Program (describe theme and objective, audience size and civic makeup, and purpose of Armed Forces participation).
- 10. Is there any charge (admission, parking, etc.)? If so, specify.
- 11. Is this event being used to raise funds for any purpose? If yes, specify how funds will be distributed.
- 12. Will all aspects of this event be available to all persons without regard to race, creed, color, gender or national origin? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- Section II - Sponsoring organization data. 13. Name and website of sponsoring organization.
- 14. Is the sponsoring organization a civic organization? X first box if yes, second if no.
- 15. Does the event have the official backing of the local government? X first box if yes, second if no.
- 16.a. Does the sponsoring organization exclude or discriminate against any person based on race, creed, color, gender or national origin? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 17. Sponsor's representative. a. Name.
- b. Address (street, city, state, zip code).
- d. Alternate telephone number.
- c. Primary telephone number (include area code).
- e. Fax number (include area code).
- f. E-mail address.
- Section VI - Certification. 19.a. Signature of sponsor's representative.
- b. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
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.
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.
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 2536?
- DD Form 2536, Request for Armed Forces Participation in Public Events (Non-Aviation), 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?