You have arrived looking for DD Form 2585. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Repatriation Processing Center Processing Sheet. Full title: DD Form 2585, Repatriation Processing Center Processing Sheet, September 2014.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Before your first entry, look at the corner of the page and compare the printed date with not stated. If they do not match, stop and download again. Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
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 10 pages, with approximately 198 fields to complete.
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.
What the form asks for
- Are you escorting unaccompanied minor child(ren)? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- Section 2 - to be completed by the "responsible person". 1. Airline and flight number.
- 2. Date of arrival (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 3. Repatriation center.
- 4. Processing Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 5. Processing time (military).
- Section 3 - Evacuee identifying information (to be completed by the "responsible person". 6. Name of evacuee (last, first, middle initial).
- 7. Country evacuated from.
- 8. Date of birth (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 9. Place of birth (city, state, and country).
- 10. Country of citizenship.
- 11. Gender. X first box if male, second box if female.
- 12. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 13. Marital status. X first box if single, second box if married, third box if widowed, fourth box if separated, or fifth box if divorced.
- 14.a. Passport number.
- 14.b. Country of issue.
- 15.b. Alien number.
- 15.b. Country of issue.
- Section 3 - Evacuee identifying information (continued). Table 1b - Foreign National. Code 13. Specify other, if none of the above.
- 16. Classification numbers and agency codes (from Table 1 and Table 2 applicable to person named in item 6). a. Classification number.
- 16 b. Agency code.
- 16.c Classification number.
- 16 d. Agency code.
- 16.e. Classification number.
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.
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.
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 2585?
- DD Form 2585, Repatriation Processing Center Processing Sheet, September 2014
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?