You have arrived looking for DD Form 458. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Charge Sheet. Full title: DD Form 458, Charge Sheet, May 2000.
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.
Start at the header. Complete your identification before anything else, then work through the main entries, then finish at the certification. Skipping around causes contradictions between the top of the form and the bottom.
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.
If a particular field puzzles you, read the instructions printed on the form first, then go to not stated. When the two disagree, follow the directive.
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Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 2 pages and about 66 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.
Prefer typing over writing. Your form will likely be scanned and emailed onward, and typed text reproduces at every stage while pen strokes fade or blur. When you do write, print in capitals so the receiving clerk can read it.
Handle xfdl in two steps. First confirm you have IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible reader on your machine; ordinary pdf software will report the file as broken. Once the viewer is running, download and fill the form.
Whichever you pick, you pay nothing — every format here is a free download. One last tip: open your pdf in a desktop reader rather than in a browser tab, because browser viewers sometimes drop the interactive fields you need.
What the form asks for
- of: enter authority
- Section 2. Charges and specifications. 10. Enter specific charge.
- Violation of the U C M J, Article:
- Subject to the following instructions. See R C M 601 e, or if none, so state.
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- Section 1 - Personal data. 1. Name of accused: last, first, middle initial.
- 2. Social security number, do not include dashes.
- 3. Grade or rank.
- 4. Pay grade.
- 5. Unit or organization.
- 6. Current service. a. Initial date.
- 6.b. Term of current service.
- 7. Pay per month. a. Basic pay.
- 7.b. Sea or foreign duty pay per month.
- 7.c. Total pay per month.
- 8. Nature of restraint of accused.
- 9. Date restraint imposed.
- Enter specification.
- Section 3. Preferral. 11.a. Name of accuser: last, first, middle initial.
- 11.b. Grade.
- 11.c. Organization of accuser.
- 11.d. Signature of accuser.
- 11.e. Date signed. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- Affidavit: Before me, the undersigned, authorized by law to administer oath in cases of this character, personally appeared the above named accuser this: enter day
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.
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 458?
- DD Form 458, Charge Sheet, May 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?