[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR45.2]

[Page 217]
 
                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
              CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
 
PART 45--CERTIFICATE OF RELEASE OR DISCHARGE FROM ACTIVE DUTY (DD FORM 214/5 
SERIES)--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 45.2  Applicability and scope.

    (a) The provisions of this part apply to the Office of the Secretary 
of Defense, the Military Services, the Joint Staff, and the Defense 
Agencies (hereafter referred to as ``DoD Components''). The term 
``Military Services,'' as used here, refers to the Army, Navy, the Air 
Force, the Marine Corps and, by agreement with the Department of 
Transportation, to the Coast Guard.
    (b) Its provisions include procedures on the preparation and 
distribution of DD Forms 214, 214WS, 215 (Appendices A, B, and C) which 
record and report the transfer or separation of military personnel from 
a period of active duty. (NOTE: Computer-generated formats are 
acceptable substitutes provided Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force 
Management and Personnel) approval is obtained.) DD Forms 214 and 215 
(or their substitutes) will provide:
    (1) The Military Services with a source of information relating to 
military personnel for administrative purposes, and for making 
determinations of eligibility for enlistment or reenlistment.
    (2) The Service member with a brief, clear-cut record of the 
member's active service with the Armed Forces at the time of transfer, 
release, or discharge, or when the member changes status or component 
while on active duty.
    (3) Appropriate governmental agencies with an authoritative source 
of information which they require in the administration of Federal and 
State laws applying to personnel who have been discharged, otherwise 
released, or transferred to a Reserve component while on active duty.
    (c) Its provisions include procedures on the control and 
distribution of all lists of SPDs.