You need DD Form 804, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Recruiting Resources Summary Report. Its official title is DD 804, Recruiting Resources Summary Report, 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.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
For questions about a specific entry, check the form's own instructions, and if that does not settle it, open not stated. The directive controls where they differ.
Download the form
Step one is picking the format. You have PDF to choose from, across 1 pages, with approximately 200 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.
Type when you can. Printed entries stay legible after the form is scanned, copied and forwarded, and handwriting often does not survive that trip. If you must write by hand, use block capitals and press firmly.
Before you take the xfdl file, make sure you can open it. Install IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or an equivalent client first, because your pdf reader will refuse the file. Then download and complete it as normal.
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
- B. Date Reported. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- C. Fiscal years reported. Enter beginning year.
- Enter ending fiscal year reported.
- Enter fiscal year for Enlisted Program, column 1, Actual.
- Enter fiscal year for enlisted program, column 2, Enacted.
- Enter fiscal year for enlisted program, column 3, estimated.
- Enter fiscal year for enlisted program, column 4, president's budget, first budget year.
- Enter fiscal year for enlisted program, column 5, president's budget, second budget year.
- Enter fiscal year for Officer Program, column 6, Actual.
- Enter fiscal year for officer program, column 7, Enacted.
- Enter fiscal year for officer program, column 8, estimated.
- Enter fiscal year for officer program, column 9, president's budget, first budget year.
- Enter fiscal year for officer program, column 10, president's budget, second budget year.
- Enter fiscal year for Medical Program, column 11, Actual.
- Enter fiscal year for medical program, column 12, Enacted.
- Enter fiscal year for medical program, column 13, estimated.
- Enter fiscal year for medical program, column 14, president's budget, first budget year.
- Enter fiscal year for medical program, column 15, president's budget, second budget year.
- Enter amounts: Cost category 1. College fund contributions, column 1, actual, enlisted program.
- Cost category 1. College fund contributions, column 2, enacted, enlisted program.
- Cost category 1. College fund contributions, column 3, estimated, enlisted program.
- Cost category 1. College fund contributions, column 4, first budget year, enlisted program.
- Cost category 1. College fund contributions, column 5, second budget year, enlisted program.
- Cost category 1. College fund contributions, column 6, actual, officer program.
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.
Watch out for one trap here. If your instructions cite a DA form as well, do not assume the numbers are connected. DA numbering belongs to the Army alone; DD numbering belongs to the Department and is administered by not stated or another Department office. The same number in each system means two unrelated forms, so read the prefix before you download.
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?
- DD 804, Recruiting Resources Summary Report, 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?