Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 804-7. First, know what you are filling: Enlistment Examining Personnel Data. The document is titled DD Form 804-7, Enlisting Examining Personnel Data, June 2000.
Your second step is the edition, not stated, listed as not stated. Your third is scope. Because the number carries a DD prefix, you use the same blank as every other military department and defense agency; no service-specific version exists for you to hunt down.
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.
Last in this stage, choose your method: complete it on screen, or print the blank form and fill it out in pen. The sections below take each route step by step.
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.
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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
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.
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.
Choose pdf as your default. Next, click inside a box. A fillable pdf responds by outlining the field and letting you type; the text stays in the document when you save it. A printable pdf does not respond, which tells you to print the page and complete it by hand.
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.
What the form asks for
- A. Component.
- B. Date reported (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- C. Fiscal years reported. From:
- Fiscal year to:
- Actuals: fiscal year.
- Appropriated (enlisted): fiscal year.
- Authorization: fiscal year.
- President's budget: fiscal year.
- President's budget: fiscal year.
- b. Civilian. Actual fiscal year. (a) End strength.
- (b) Work years.
- (c) Dollar amount without retirement.
- (d) Dollar amount with retirement.
- Appropriated. (e) End strength.
- (f) Work years.
- (g) Dollar amount without retirement.
- (h) Dollar amount with retirement.
- Authorization: (i) End strength.
- (j) Work years.
- (k) Dollar amount without retirement.
- (l) Dollar amount with retirement.
- First President's budget year: (m) End strength.
- (n) Work years.
- (o) Dollar amount without retirement.
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.
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.
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 804-7?
- DD Form 804-7, Enlisting Examining Personnel 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?