You need DD Form 2904, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Application for Voluntary Separation Incentive Pay Under VSIP Phase II. Its official title is DD Form 2904, Application for Voluntary Separation Incentive Pay Under VSIP Phase II, October 2005.
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.
Finally, decide how you will complete it. You can type into a fillable file or print a blank and write by hand, and the rest of this page walks you through both paths in order.
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.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.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
Step one is picking the format. You have PDF to choose from, across 1 pages, with approximately 15 fields to complete.
Choose pdf as your default. Next, click inside a box. A fillable pdf responds by outlining the field and letting you type; the text stays in the document when you save it. A printable pdf does not respond, which tells you to print the page and complete it by hand.
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.
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.
All of it downloads free. When you are ready to work, do this: save the file locally, then open it in a full pdf application. Browsers often ignore field properties, and you can lose everything you typed.
What the form asks for
- 1. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. Social Security Number. Do not include dashes.
- 3. Organization.
- 4. Duty telephone number (include area code). Enter numbers only.
- 5. Job title.
- 6. Series.
- 7. Grade.
- 8. I am applying for the Voluntary Separation Incentive Pay Phase 2 Program under the following option: Press space bar to mark X in first box if Voluntary Early Retirement, second box if Optional Retirement, or third box if Resignation.
- 9.a. Employee signature.
- 10. Human Resources Office use only. a. Leave SCD (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no separators).
- 9.b. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no separators).
- 10.b. Date application approved (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no separators).
- 10.c. Date applicant notified of approval (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no separators).
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
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.
When DD Form 2904 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.
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.
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 2904?
- DD Form 2904, Application for Voluntary Separation Incentive Pay Under VSIP Phase II, October 2005
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?