You have arrived looking for DD Form 2704. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Victim/Witness Certification and Election Concerning Prisoner Status. Full title: DD Form 2704, Victim/Witness Certification and Election Concerning Prisoner Status, March 2013.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If a particular field puzzles you, read the instructions printed on the form first, then go to not stated. When the two disagree, follow the directive.
Download the form
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 3 pages and about 142 entries.
Take the pdf if you are unsure. Then check which kind you have: if the boxes highlight when you click them, you have a fillable pdf and can type straight into it, and your entries save with the file. If nothing highlights, you have a printable pdf — send it to a printer and use black 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.
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.
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
- Incident number.
- Installation.
- City.
- State.
- Zip code.
- Court martial convening order number, date, and issuing command.
- Section 2 - Certification of no victims or witnesses. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Signature of trial counsel or designee.
- Typed name (last, first).
- Grade and title.
- Telephone number.
- Section 3 - Certification of advice to victims or witnesses. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Signature of trial counsel or designee.
- Typed name (last, first).
- Grade and title.
- Telephone number.
- Section 4 - Distribution. Addresses (include 9-digit zip code and telephone number). 1. Military Service Central Repository.
- 2. Law enforcement/special investigation Address (include 9-digit zip code and telephone number).
- 3. Correctional/brig facility (name and address) (include 9-digit zip code and telephone number).
- Name of accused (last, first, middle initial).
- Social security number (last 4 digits only).
- 1. Name (last, first, middle initial) and age if under 18. Line 1.
- Affiliation status. Select one.
- Status. Select one.
Submit the completed form through the channel not stated or your local guidance specifies. Save a copy for yourself before it leaves your hands, whether that means a scan, a photograph or a duplicate file.
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.
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 2704?
- DD Form 2704, Victim/Witness Certification and Election Concerning Prisoner Status, March 2013
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?