Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 804-1. First, know what you are filling: Enlisted Recruiting Manpower Data. The document is titled DD Form 804-1, Enlisted Recruiting Manpower Data, June 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.
Once you know the form fits, find out when you file it. not stated sets the requirement, and not stated maintains the form itself. Your own command or agency adds local timing on top of that, so ask your administrative office if the deadline matters to you.
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.
Your first action is verification. Find the edition date on the form and match it against not stated. A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
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 1 pages, and you will complete roughly 200 fields.
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.
All of it downloads free. When you are ready to work, do this: save the file locally, then open it in a full pdf application. Browsers often ignore field properties, and you can lose everything you typed.
What the form asks for
- A. Component.
- B. Date reported (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- Fiscal year to:
- C. Fiscal years reported. From:
- Appropriated (enlisted): fiscal year.
- Authorization: fiscal year.
- Actuals: fiscal year.
- President's budget: fiscal year.
- President's budget: fiscal year.
- (7) Dollar amount without retirement.
- 1. Headquarters. a. Officer. Actual fiscal year. (1) End strength.
- (2) Work years.
- (3) Dollar amount (in thousands) without retirement.
- (4) Dollar amount with retirement.
- Appropriated (5) End strength.
- (6) Work years.
- (7) Dollar amount without retirement.
- (8) Dollar amount with retirement.
- Authorized: (9) End strength.
- (10) Work years.
- (11) Dollar amount without retirement.
- (12) Dollar amount with retirement.
- First President's budget year: (13) End strength.
- (14) Work years.
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.
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.
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 804-1?
- DD Form 804-1, Enlisted Recruiting Manpower Data, June 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?