You need DD Form 2949, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Joint Inspector General Action Request. Its official title is DD Form 2949, Joint Inspector General Action Request, September 2011.
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.
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.
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.
Before your first entry, look at the corner of the page and compare the printed date with not stated. If they do not match, stop and download again. Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
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 1 pages and about 25 entries.
Download the pdf first. After it opens, test a field with your cursor. Fillable means you type, tab to the next box, and save your work inside the file. Printable means the page is a flat blank, so print it and write your answers in 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.
Check your software before choosing xfdl. That format belongs to IBM Lotus Forms, long used for Defense form distribution, and it needs the matching viewer. Get the viewer installed, then come back for the file.
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. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. Grade/rank.
- 3. Social security number (optional).
- 4. Status. X first box if military, second if civilian.
- If military: X first box if Air Force, second if Army, third if Navy, fourth if Marine Corps, fifth if Coast Guard.
- X first box if Active Duty, second if Reserve, third if National Guard, fourth if other.
- If other, specify.
- If civilian: X first box if appropriated fund, second if nonappropriated fund.
- X if contractor.
- X if foreign or local national.
- X if other.
- If other, specify.
- 5. Unit identification code/organization address.
- 7. Contact telephone numbers (include area code/DSN). a. Duty.
- b. Home.
- c. Cell.
- 6. Preferred mailing address (if different).
- 8. E-mail address(es).
- 9. Specific action requested (what do you want the IG to do for you?).
- 10. Information pertaining to this request (background, list attached documents, others talked with about this matter, etc.).
- 11. Statement. X first box if I do, second box if I do not consent to release my personal information inside official channels.
- a. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- b. Signature.
- 12. IG/Case number (assigned by Joint IG).
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 2949 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.
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 2949?
- DD Form 2949, Joint Inspector General Action Request, September 2011
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?