You have arrived looking for DD Form 2947-1. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: TRICARE Young Adult Application - 2018 (EAST). Full title: DD 2947, Sep 2016, "TRICARE Young Adult Application".
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.
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
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 4 pages, and you will complete roughly 106 fields.
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.
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.
What the form asks for
- Contractor's name
- Telephone or fax for OCONUS
- Contractor website.
- Servicing contractor information: Name, mailing address, web address and service fees..
- Street Address
- Telephone
- Street Address
- Telephone
- Street Address
- City, state, 9-digit zip code
- Telephone
- Street Address
- City, state, 9-digit zip code
- Telephone
- TRICARE Young Adult option desired. Press space bar to mark X in first box if TRICARE Standard, second box if TRICARE Prime, third box if TRICARE Overseas Program Prime, or fourth box if Uniformed Services Family Health Plan.
- Section I - Sponsor information. 1. Sponsor name (last, first, middle initial) (must match DEERS).
- 3. Sponsor is: X first box if active duty, second if retired, third if Selected Reserve, fourth if Retired Reserve, or fifth if deceased.
- 4. Sponsor's work telephone number (include area code/extensions).
- Residential telephone number(s).
- 5. Sponsor's email address.
- X this box to receive TRICARE e-mails.
- X if new address.
- 6. Sponsor's residence address (street, apartment number, city, state, zip code, country).
- X if same as residence address.
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.
When DD Form 2947-1 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.
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 2947-1?
- DD 2947, Sep 2016, "TRICARE Young Adult Application"
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?