You need DD Form 2643, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: High Cost Foreign Lease. Its official title is DD Form 2643, High Cost Foreign Lease, September 1993.
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.
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.
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.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.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
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 1 pages, and you will complete roughly 39 fields.
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.
Type when you can. Printed entries stay legible after the form is scanned, copied and forwarded, and handwriting often does not survive that trip. If you must write by hand, use block capitals and press firmly.
Before you take the xfdl file, make sure you can open it. Install IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or an equivalent client first, because your pdf reader will refuse the file. Then download and complete it as normal.
All of it downloads free. When you are ready to work, do this: save the file locally, then open it in a full pdf application. Browsers often ignore field properties, and you can lose everything you typed.
What the form asks for
- 1. Effective date.
- 2. Lease number.
- 3. Quarters I D code.
- Section 1 - Position Data. 4. Position normally assigned to unit.
- 5. Normal grade for position.
- Section 2 - Present Incumbent. 6. Name.
- 7. Grade.
- 8. Scheduled arrival date.
- 9. Date tour ends.
- 10. Organization assignment.
- 11. Gender and age of dependents (except spouse).
- Section 3 - Component Leasing Unit. 12. DoD component.
- 13. Executive agent (installation/MACOM administering lease agreement).
- 14. Reason for lease. Press space bar to mark X in first box if special command position, second box if country requirement, third box if attache system, fourth box if undue hardship, or fifth box if other.
- If other reason, explain.
- Section 4 - Lease Data. 15. Address (include apartment number, city, state, country and 9 digit zip code).
- 16. Gross square feet.
- 17. Net square feet.
- 18. Number of bedrooms
- 19. Number of full baths.
- 20. Number of half baths.
- 21. Land square footage.
- 22. Unit type. X first box if detached, second box if high rise, third box if duplex, etc.
- 23. Distance from work site. a. Miles.
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.
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.
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 2643?
- DD Form 2643, High Cost Foreign Lease, September 1993
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?