You have arrived looking for DD Form 368. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Request for Conditional Release. Full title: DD Form 0368, Request for Conditional Release, August 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.
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.
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.
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
Step one is picking the format. You have PDF to choose from, across 2 pages, with approximately 46 fields to complete.
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.
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
- Section 1 - Request for release. 1.a. Service member name (last, first, middle initial).
- 1. b. Pay Grade.
- 1.c. Social Security Number or Electronic Data Interchange Personal Identifier.
- 1. d. Service Component.
- 1. e. Current Unit / Command.
- 1. f. (1) Street address.
- 1. f. (2) City.
- 1. f. (3) State.
- 1. f. (4) Zip code.
- 2. Recruiting office address. a. Street.
- 2.b. City.
- 2.c. State.
- 2.d. Zip code.
- 3. b. For Officer Member only. I hereby tender my resignation from the (enter current component).
- I request that it be accepted contingent upon actual appointment or enlistment in the (enter the requesting component here), and be effective the day preceding the date of my acceptance of appointment or enlistment.
- d. Member signature.
- 3.e. Date signed.
- 4. a. Request conditional release to enlist / appoint member into (enter service component).
- 4. b. Name of Recruiter (Last, first, Middle Initial).
- c. Recruiter signature.
- 4. d. Date Signed.
- 4.e. Title
- Section 2 - Approval/disapproval. Press space bar to mark X in first box if approved, second box if disapproved.
- If approved: The release is valid until (date).
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.
If the form points you to another document, you can find it by number alone. DD numbering runs across the whole Department, so you do not need to work out which service issued it — one number, one form, everywhere.
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.
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.
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 368?
- DD Form 0368, Request for Conditional Release, August 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?