Home / Air Force / AFPD / AFPD 51-5

AFPD 51-5 — Administrative Law, Gifts, and Command Relationships

AFPD 51-5 is listed as current Current
in the AF e-Publishing catalog as of our last index refresh (2026-08-23). Status is mirrored from that catalog, re-checked weekly — every change is logged. Note: its publication date is 2018-08-31 — 8.0 years old — so check for newer interim changes before citing it.
BranchU.S. Air Force
SeriesAFPD
Publication date2018-08-31 (8.0 years ago)
StatusCurrent
Proponent / OPRAF/JA
Source of recordAF e-Publishing

Download PDF Official document (AF e-Publishing)

What this publication covers

This Directive establishes policy and assigns responsibilities for ensuring due process during administrative proceedings before a board of officers (“boards”). It also establishes policy and assigns responsibilities for accepting gifts to the Air Force. Finally, this Directive also assigns responsibilities for command consistent with DODD 5100.01; Joint Publication 1; and Air Force Mission Directive 1, Headquarters Air Force (HAF). This will ensure compliance with the principle that command is central to all military action and that unity of command is fundamental to the optimal employment of all forces under a single responsible commander. Unless otherwise stated, this Directive does not confer any rights, benefits, or form of due process on any individual, nor does it create any obligations for the United States, the Department of Defense, or the Air Force.

If AFPD 51-5 changes, who else is affected

Functional communityPublicationsWhich ones
History1DAFI 84-103
Personnel1AFI 36-2504

2 publications in 2 other communities depend on this one, which Law owns. Each community inspects its own publications; a dependency that crosses communities is owned by nobody, which is why this list normally does not exist anywhere. Built from the publications' own citations, so it reflects what we have read.

Publications that cite AFPD 51-5

If AFPD 51-5 changes, these are the documents that point at it. Extracted from the publications' own text, so it reflects what we have read, not a complete dependency map. Every publishing office validates its own document; nobody validates the seams between them.

Watch this publication
Get an email if AFPD 51-5 is revised, superseded, or rescinded.

Nearby in the AFPD series

This is an unofficial index built from the public catalog. The controlling copy is always the one on AF e-Publishing — verify there before citing AFPD 51-5 in an official product.