Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 2706. First, know what you are filling: Annual Report on Victim and Witness Assistance. The document is titled DD Form 2706, Annual Report on Victim and Witness Assistance, March 2013.
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.
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.
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.
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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
Take the fields in order and answer all of them. Mark inapplicable items N/A instead of leaving white space. When you reach a date, copy the format shown on the form, since a reviewer reading a different convention may misread your entry entirely.
Do not skip past the Privacy Act Statement. It is placed ahead of the personal data fields on purpose: it explains under what authority you are being asked, what happens to the information, and what follows if you decline. Take the minute it costs.
Sign last, and sign properly. On paper that means ink in the signature block. Electronically it means a digital signature, usually applied with your Common Access Card in a reader that supports it. Typing your name into the field does not sign anything. Then add the date beside your signature — an unsigned or undated form is the most common reason one comes back.
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.
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 22 fields.
Handle xfdl in two steps. First confirm you have IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible reader on your machine; ordinary pdf software will report the file as broken. Once the viewer is running, download and fill the form.
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
- 1. Reporting office.
- b. To: December 31 (enter year).
- (2) Number of witnesses informed of their rights to assistance (DD Form 2701 upon initial contact).
- 3.a.(1) Number of crime victims informed of their rights to assistance (DD Form 2701 upon initial contact).
- b.(1) Number of crime victims informed of their consultation rights in courts-martial (DD Form 2702 upon referral to court-martial).
- c. (2) Number of witnesses informed of their right to be notified of changes in the prisoner's status in prison (escape, parole, death) (DD Form 2703 upon sentencing to confinement).
- c. (1) Number of crime victims informed of their right to be notified of changes in the prisoner's status in prison (escape, parole, death) (DD Form 2703 upon sentencing to confinement).
- d. (2) Number of witnesses who elected to be notified of prisoner status changes (DD Form 2704 once informed of their right to be notified of changes in the prisoner's status).
- d. (1) Number of crime victims who elected to be notified of prisoner status changes (DD Form 2704 once informed of their right to be notified of changes in the prisoner's status).
- 4. DD Forms 2705 sent upon status change: (1) Number of prisoner status changes.
- (2) Number of notification letters sent.
- 2. Reporting period. a. From: January 1 (enter year).
- 5. As of December 31 (enter year):
- (2) Navy.
- (3) Air Force.
- Cumulative report of total service prisoners that have required victim and witness notifications: (1) Army.
- (5) Coast Guard.
- (4) Marines.
- (6) Other.
- 6. DoD Component Responsible Official. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Signature.
- c. 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.
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.
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 2706?
- DD Form 2706, Annual Report on Victim and Witness Assistance, 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?