You need DD Form 295, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Application for the Evaluation of Learning Experiences During Military Service. Its official title is D D Form 295, Application for Evaluation of Learning Experiences during Military Service, April 2000.
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.
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.
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.
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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
Fill every box as you come to it. If an item does not apply, enter N/A — an empty field looks like an oversight, and the form comes back to you. Watch the date fields especially: use the format the form specifies, not your habitual one.
Stop at the Privacy Act Statement and read it through. You will find the authority for the collection, the principal purpose, the routine uses, and whether disclosure is voluntary or mandatory. Read it now, while you still have the choice of what to disclose.
Sign only after every other entry is complete. Use ink on a printed copy, or a credentialed digital signature — CAC-based, in a reader that handles it — on an electronic one. A typed name satisfies neither method. Enter the date next to it before you close the file.
Run a final pass over the form. The errors that send it back are the same ones every time: old edition, gaps in required fields, unreadable handwriting on a scan, non-conforming dates, no signature or no date.
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 4 pages and about 175 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.
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.
What the form asks for
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no separators).
- To (name and address of educational institution, agency, or employer).
- Section 1 - To be completed by applicant. 1. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. Grade, rank or rating.
- Social security number. Do not include dashes
- 4. Previous service number(s).
- 5. Present branch of service (includes National Guard and Reserve components). Press space bar to mark X in first box if Army, second box if Navy, third box if Air Force, fourth box if Marine Corps, or fifth box if Coast Guard.
- 6. Applicant's mailing address for reply from eductional institution.
- 7. Date of birth (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no separators).
- 8. Permanent home address.
- 9. Highest grade of school completed. X first box if 6, second box if 7, third box if 8, fourth box if 9, fifth box if 10, sixth box if 11, or seventh box if 12.
- 10. Highest year of college completed. X first box if none, second box if Freshman (1 - 29 semester hours), third box if sophomore (33-59 hours), fourth box if Junior (60 - 39 hours), or fifth box if Senior (90 - 100 hours).
- 11. College degree earned. X first box if associate, second box if bachelor.
- 12.a. Name of educational institution last attended.
- b. Mailing address.
- 13. Military correspondence courses completed. a. Course name, line 1 (if none taken, print "NONE").
- b. ACE guide course or occupation identification number.
- c. Course sponsor (AIPD, MCI, ECI, CGI).
- d. Date course completed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- c. Course sponsor.
- a. Course name, line 8.
- b. Ace guide course or occupation ID number.
- c. Course sponsor.
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.
Should you need a related form, look it up by its number. The DD sequence is Department-wide, which makes your search simple: no service qualifier, no branch-specific variant to track down.
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.
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.
Before you go, note what is not covered here. You have the blank form and instructions for completing it; you do not have legal guidance, and no statement on this page determines what any office will do with your submission. Direct those questions to not stated, to the personnel office that serves you, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 295?
- D D Form 295, Application for Evaluation of Learning Experiences during Military Service, April 2000
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?