You need DD Form 870, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Request for Fiscal Information Concerning Transportation Requests, Bill of Landing and Meal Tickets. Its official title is DD Form 870, Request for Fiscal Information Concerning Transportation Requests, February 1987..
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.
Finally, decide how you will complete it. You can type into a fillable file or print a blank and write by hand, and the rest of this page walks you through both paths in order.
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 A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.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
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 1 pages, and you will complete roughly 32 fields.
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
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- Date.
- Section A- Document Description. 1. D.O. Voucher number.
- 2. D.O. or Accounting Date.
- 3. Transportation Request Number (include prefix).
- 4. Bill of Lading Number (include prefix).
- 5. Meal ticket number (include prefix).
- 6. Amount.
- 7. To.
- 8. Accounting Classification (include station number).
- 9. Fiscal Officer. a. Typed name.
- 9.b. Grade.
- Section B - Information requested on document described above. 10. Press space bar to mark X if appropriate: Issuing office.
- 10. Complete name and address of issuing office and/or officer (include zip code).
- 11. Mark X if appropriate: Accounting Classification.
- 11. Accounting Classification (include station number).
- 12. Address.
- 13. Mark X if: Traveler or Items Shipped.
- 13. Traveler or items shipped.
- 14. Mark X if: Authority for Shipment or Travel.
- 15. Mark X if Other.
- 14. Authority for Shipment or Travel (special order number, contract number, etc.).
- 15. Other information requested.
- 16. Film number.
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.
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.
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.
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 870?
- DD Form 870, Request for Fiscal Information Concerning Transportation Requests, February 1987.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?