You need DD Form 2834, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Veterinary Consultation Request. Its official title is DD Form 2834, Veterinary Consultation Request, September 2002..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 2 pages and about 37 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.
Prefer typing over writing. Your form will likely be scanned and emailed onward, and typed text reproduces at every stage while pen strokes fade or blur. When you do write, print in capitals so the receiving clerk can read it.
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.
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. Press space bar to mark X if tissue in doctor's office (AFIP use only)
- 2. Owner's last name.
- 3. Animal name and/or tattoo number.
- 4. Previous AFIP case number on animal, if applicable.
- 5. Common name (dog, bird, rat, etc.).
- 6. Date of birth. Last three digits of year, three letter month, three digit day, no dividers.
- 7. Age.
- 8. Sex.
- 9. Neutered? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 10. Breed/type/strain (Beagle, Canary, etc.).
- 11. Genus and species (scientific name).
- 12. Materials forwarded (x or complete as applicable). Mark X if clinical information (required).
- Mark X if surgical pathology report (required).
- Mark X if autopsy report (required).
- Mark X if photos, clinical/gross.
- Mark X if X-rays.
- Enter quantity of slides (required).
- Enter quantity of blocks.
- Mark X if wet tissue.
- Mark X if other.
- Specify other materials forwarded.
- 13. Contributor's case identification. a. Surgical pathology accession number(s).
- 13.b. Autopsy/necropsy accession number.
- c. Euthanized? 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 2834 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.
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.
Plan to repeat this step whenever the form comes up again. Revisions follow directive changes, changes in what data is collected, and updates to notice language. Since nobody notifies you, check not stated at download and you have covered it.
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 2834?
- DD Form 2834, Veterinary Consultation Request, September 2002.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?