You need DD Form 804-8, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Enlistment Examining Support Costs. Its official title is DD Form 804-8, Enlisted Examining Support Costs, June 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.
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.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
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
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 1 pages and about 151 entries.
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.
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
- 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: (1) Work years.
- (2) Costs.
- Appropriated (enlisted): (3) Work years.
- (4) Costs.
- Authorization: (5) Work years.
- (6) Costs.
- First year president's budget: (7) Work years.
- (8) Costs.
- Second year president's budget: (9) Work years.
- (10) Costs.
- 2. Production tests. a. Military examiners. Actual: (1) Work years.
- (2) Costs.
- Appropriated (enlisted): (3) Work years.
- (4) Costs.
- Authorization: (5) Work years.
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.
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.
Before you go, note what is not covered here. You have the blank form and instructions for completing it; you do not have legal guidance, and no statement on this page determines what any office will do with your submission. Direct those questions to not stated, to the personnel office that serves you, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 804-8?
- DD Form 804-8, Enlisted Examining Support Costs, 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?