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DOD vehicle registration and ID cards
JamesRK
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For a bunch of years you had to have your vehicle registered with DOD to drive on a military installation. Your registration (windshield sticker) and ID card were checked at the gate and you were waved through. A minor pain in the butt, but no big deal.
About a year ago I was told all vehicles had to be reregistered under the new system, so I went to the Pass Office to get it over with. They wanted my windshield sticker back and put all my paperwork into the computer. Quick and easy.
I asked the little old lady in tennis shoes when this registration would expire. She said she had no way of knowing and as far as she knew it was good forever.
A couple of weeks ago I stopped by the Pass Office to register the Silverado. This time the little old lady told me the registration was good until May of 2022. She told me they don't actually check registration anymore. You go through the gate based on your ID card only. You can be driving any vehicle, registered or not.
I told her that sounded to me like there is no reason to register now. She gave me a short speech in doubletalk about why it is absolutely necessary to register. I told her I didn't understand so she gave me the same speech again in the same doubletalk and I dropped the subject.
Then as an oh by the way she told me my ID Card would be useless soon because it has my socialist security number on it. I called the Personnel Office and asked if I needed an appointment to get an ID Card. The young lady on the phone said they do take walk-ins but it is much better to have an appointment. By the time I got there it was by appointment only.
Does anybody out there know what the real deal is?
About a year ago I was told all vehicles had to be reregistered under the new system, so I went to the Pass Office to get it over with. They wanted my windshield sticker back and put all my paperwork into the computer. Quick and easy.
I asked the little old lady in tennis shoes when this registration would expire. She said she had no way of knowing and as far as she knew it was good forever.
A couple of weeks ago I stopped by the Pass Office to register the Silverado. This time the little old lady told me the registration was good until May of 2022. She told me they don't actually check registration anymore. You go through the gate based on your ID card only. You can be driving any vehicle, registered or not.
I told her that sounded to me like there is no reason to register now. She gave me a short speech in doubletalk about why it is absolutely necessary to register. I told her I didn't understand so she gave me the same speech again in the same doubletalk and I dropped the subject.
Then as an oh by the way she told me my ID Card would be useless soon because it has my socialist security number on it. I called the Personnel Office and asked if I needed an appointment to get an ID Card. The young lady on the phone said they do take walk-ins but it is much better to have an appointment. By the time I got there it was by appointment only.
Does anybody out there know what the real deal is?
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Now it is show your ID and they scan it at the gate. If you are not Active, retired, NG/RES I am not sure what the do. I have taken my Dad on Bragg and I just show my ID and his Driver Lic.
Most gave it up as too expensive.
As far as ID card. If you have an indef retired card getting a new one is optional.
http://www.cac.mil/docs/SSNReductionTrifold_201409.pdf
You do not need the windshield sticker any more. Unless you live or work on the installation and the installation commander requires it.
Most gave it up as too expensive.
As far as ID card. If you have an indef retired card getting a new one is optional.
http://www.cac.mil/docs/SSNReductionTrifold_201409.pdf
That's about the way I thought it should be. I'm a little surprised DOD doesn't have a uniform standard for all of DOD.
The way I read it I have until 2022 to get a new I. D. Card, but since I already have an appointment I'll go ahead and do it now.
Thanks for the replies.
On FT Bragg they don't do the windshield sticker pass thing anymore. That ended around 2007.
Now it is show your ID and they scan it at the gate. If you are not Active, retired, NG/RES I am not sure what the do. I have taken my Dad on Bragg and I just show my ID and his Driver Lic.
Yep, and as of late, many of the bases have established a trust the driver policy meaning only the driver must show ID.
Wow, Bragg and Fayetteville. Thank God my time there was short.
Back in the old days they put your thumb print on your I.D. card. They stopped doing that. I don't know why. Now they don't put it on the card but they take a print of your right trigger finger. I don't have fingerprints so the only bottleneck in the process was finding somebody with authority to override the system and issue a card without the print.
My picture made me look like a bent over old man. I told the little girl I wanted a do over. I don't mind so much being a bent over old man but I don't want to look like one.
She explained I.D. cards are a one shot deal. No do overs without a real reason. [:D]
Overall I'll rate the NCNGHQ as a four star outfit. It looks to me like being in the military today would be interesting. Different, but interesting.
What did you do work with Sulfuric Acid without the rubber gloves?
NO fingerprints James?
What did you do work with Sulfuric Acid without the rubber gloves?
The FBI says it's a common thing with old people, but mine have always been "unclassifiable". It always took forever and a day to get security clearance renewals.
By the time I figured out I should have been a professional criminal they had DNA. Some of us just can't win. [:D]
NO fingerprints James?
What did you do work with Sulfuric Acid without the rubber gloves?
They couldn't get readable prints from me when I got my CCP. They finally just gave up and issued. Even my computer says I have no prints.
I did work for years in a lab with a lot of sulfuric acid.[:)]
I got my new I.D. card at the Army National Guard Headquarters at Raleigh, NC. They have a pretty nice place there. They have more parking spaces for General Officers than I thought there were General Officers in the National Guard. I didn't count them but there was a bunch and then some. If you aren't a General or handicapped, figure on doing some walking.
Back in the old days they put your thumb print on your I.D. card. They stopped doing that. I don't know why. Now they don't put it on the card but they take a print of your right trigger finger. I don't have fingerprints so the only bottleneck in the process was finding somebody with authority to override the system and issue a card without the print.
My picture made me look like a bent over old man. I told the little girl I wanted a do over. I don't mind so much being a bent over old man but I don't want to look like one.
She explained I.D. cards are a one shot deal. No do overs without a real reason. [:D]
Overall I'll rate the NCNGHQ as a four star outfit. It looks to me like being in the military today would be interesting. Different, but interesting.
James that is a nice facility. That is where my wife and I get our ID Cards. Mine as a retiree is Indef but she has to renew it every 6 years.
I sure am glad they avoided the administrative burden of adding a digit to the Service Numbers in the 1960s. At the time I thought it was an ill-advised or dim-witted move and now, fifty-some years later I still think the same thing.