You have arrived looking for DD Form 2952. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Closeout Report of Suspected Child Sexual Abuse in DoD Operated or Sponsored Activities. Full title: DD Form 2952, Closeout Report of Suspected Child Abuse in DoD Operated or Sponsored Activities, June 2012.
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.
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.
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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.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
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 3 pages, and you will complete roughly 46 fields.
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
- Section A - Administrative Information. 1. Name of installation.
- 2. State/country.
- 3. Point of contact. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Position.
- c.(1) DSN telephone number.
- (2) Commercial telephone number (include area code).
- (3) Fax numbers (DSN and commercial).
- (4) E-mail address.
- 4. Activity where suspected abuse occurred.
- 5. Date of initial report to DUSD(P&R) (2 digit month/2 digit day/4 digit year).
- 7. Publicity. X if a., installation town meeting.
- X if b., reported in civilian media.
- If b.: (1) Local: X if print.
- X if broadcast.
- (2) National: X if print.
- X if broadcast.
- X if c., military public affairs.
- X if authorized publications.
- X if AFN.
- Section B - Victim information. 7. Initial potential victim pool (enter numbers).
- a. Potential victims not contacted:
- b. Potential victims who declined screening:
- c. Potential victims screened:
- 8. Total potential victims screened and needing forensic interviews (enter numbers).
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.
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.
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.
One thing this page does not do: tell you whether your submission will be accepted. We publish the document and explain how to complete it, and that is where our role ends. Nothing here is legal advice. Take questions about eligibility, applicability or procedure to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2952?
- DD Form 2952, Closeout Report of Suspected Child Abuse in DoD Operated or Sponsored Activities, June 2012
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?