You need DD Form 2754, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) Instructor Pay Certification Worksheet for Entitlement Computation. Its official title is DD Form 2754, JROTC Instructor Pay Certification Worksheet for Entitlement Computation, September 2007.
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.
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.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
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 2 pages and about 58 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.
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.
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
- Part A - B.A.H. (Applies to CONUS and Overseas Locations.) 1. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. Retired grade.
- 3. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 4. Branch of service retired from. Press space bar to mark X in first box if Army, second box if Air Force, third box if Navy, fourth box if Marines, or fifth box if Coast Guard.
- 5. Current address of instructor. a. Street (include apartment or suite number).
- 5.b. City.
- 5.c. State.
- 5.d. Zip Code.
- 5.e. Daytime telephone number (include area code).
- 6. Employing School Information. a. Name and address of school (include zip code).
- 6.a.(1) Telephone number. Include area code.
- 6.a.(2) Fax number. Include area code.
- 6.b. Name and address of school district (include Zip Code).
- 6.b.(1) Telephone number. Include area code.
- 6.b.(2) Fax number. Include area code.
- 6.c. School (unit) identification.
- 7. Marital status. X first box if married, second box if single, third box if divorced, fourth box if separated.
- 8. Status of spouse. X first box if non-military, second box if other federal service, third box if active duty member, fourth box if JROTC instructor.
- 9. If spouse is active duty or instructor. a. Social security number.
- 9.b. Branch of service.
- 9.c. Duty location.
- 10.a. Residing in government/employer provided quarters? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- b. If yes, do either you or your spouse pay rent? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 11. If not married, do you have dependents? X first box if yes, second box if no.
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.
When DD Form 2754 references another form, search on the series and number. Because DD numbers are common to every military department, the number by itself identifies exactly one document.
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.
Finally, understand the limits of what you have read. This page distributes a published Department of Defense form and describes how to fill it out. It does not give legal or procedural advice, and it cannot promise any outcome for your particular case. For that, contact not stated, your administrative office, or the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2754?
- DD Form 2754, JROTC Instructor Pay Certification Worksheet for Entitlement Computation, September 2007
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?