Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 2711. First, know what you are filling: Initial Custody Classification. The document is titled DD Form 2711, Initial Custody Classification, March 2013.
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.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
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
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 4 pages, and you will complete roughly 78 fields.
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
- 1. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 2. Interviewer name.
- 3. Press space bar to mark X in first box if pre-trial, second box if post-trial.
- Classification worksheet. 11. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 12. Time.
- 13. Interviewer name.
- 14. X first box if pre-trial, second box if post-trial.
- 4. Identification. a. Prisoner name (last, first, middle) (also known as).
- 16. Administrative factors. a. Suicide risk. (1) How do you feel about being here?
- (2) Have you ever thought about committing suicide? X first box if no, second box if yes.
- If (1) or (2) is yes: (3) Have you ever been disciplined in the service or fired from a job because of drug or alcohol use? X first box if no, second box if yes.
- 17. Management factors. a. What charge(s) are you confined for?
- b. Substance abuse. (1) Have you ever used drugs or alcohol? Drugs: X first box if no, second box if yes.
- Alcohol: X first box if no, second box if yes.
- (2) Have you ever used drugs/alcohol in this enlistment? Drugs: X first box if no, second box if yes.
- Alcohol: X first box if no, second box if yes.
- If (1) or (2) is yes: (3) Have you ever been disciplined in the service or fired from a job because of drug or alcohol use? X first box if no, second box if yes.
- (4) Has drug/alcohol use ever led to family problems or conflicts? X first box if no, second box if yes.
- (5) Have you ever been arrested while under the influence of drugs or alcohol? X first box if no, second box if yes.
- (6) Has use of drugs/alcohol resulted in other problems, such as blackouts or loss of friends? X first box if no, second box if yes.
- c. Pending charges/warrants/detainers. Do you have any outstanding warrants/detainers or additional pending charges? X first box if no, second box if yes.
- If yes, explain.
- d. History of violence. (1) Have you ever assaulted another person? X first box if no, second box if yes.
- If yes: (2) Non-physical altercation? X first box if no, second box if yes.
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.
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.
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 2711?
- DD Form 2711, Initial Custody Classification, 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?