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DoD Decals no longer required on Naval/USMC installations

Thought you might be interested.

- Jim

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY, THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY (ENERGY, INSTALLATIONS & ENVIRONMENT)

MEMORANDUM FOR CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS

MAR 18 2011

SUBJ: Installation Vehicle Registration (Vehicle Decal) Program

Ref: (a) USD (Intelligence) Directive-Type Memorandum 09-012, Interim Policy Guidance for DoD Physical Access Control, dtd 08 December 2009

Reference (a) defines the minimum standards for controlling physical access to military installations. These standards include visual, physical, and electronic (when available) inspections of approved identification cards by installation law enforcement and security officials.

Based upon these standards, it is no longer a requirement for vehicles entering Department of the Navy installations to be registered via the DD Form 2220 vehicle decal. All privately owned vehicles (POVs) must continue to be licensed, registered, inspected, and insured in accordance with state and local laws. Rental vehicles are considered POVs for purposes of base entry and access control. The vehicle rental contract will suffice as proper licensing, registration and insurance for base access.
USN and USMC shall take necessary action to communicate this change and to implement mitigations or alternate plans to maintain any desired decal collateral functions (e.g. parking management).
Waivers may be granted by the CNO, CMC or their delegated official only after mitigating fiscal and personal security concerns of government personnel traveling offbase in POVs.

My action officer POC is LCDR Dave Ryan, 703-602-7843, david.h.ryan2@navy.mil.

Re: DoD Decals no longer required on Naval/USMC installations

Like the guard at the Natioanal Guard base in Johnston, Ia told me,"Stickers don't mean s**t anymore Chief, have a nice day"

Re: DoD Decals no longer required on Naval/USMC installations

The Air Force installations around here have something called DBIDS or Defense Biometric Identification System. Your ID card is run through a hand held reader and it comes up with all your personal info and a picture of you that they then can match against you. Cant get on base without an ID card unless you go to visitor gates.This hand held device looks like the DEMP we had in Bermuda (1968-1970) with the CDC system that annotated the beams for you and you verified it using the DEMP. Some of you will remember that system...

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Hal, guess I'd have to go to Pass & ID for a pass. I still have my old style ID Card. Haven't asked to surrender it as yet but then not too many military installation around Winthrop, WA.
Darel

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They have the same system here at Whiteman AFB. They also have hardened (and I mean hardened) access gates. Bulletproof glass, spider holes, in-ground crash restriction poles, and guards with loaded M-16's. I think the Spirit's are well protected.

I go to a place called Truman Lake to exercise my right to pursue happiness. Smokey remembers my passion for hunting the elusive Black Bass, and dining on the delicious fresh water Crappie. Well, I was sitting on the dock doing my thing, when suddenly (at about 1500 ft on glide slope to Whiteman) a Spirit slowly, and silently, moved away overhead. Nothing seemed more impressive in contrast at the moment. The mental picture will be with me (and my brother) for the rest our days.

Cheers all...

Re: DoD Decals no longer required on Naval/USMC installations

GREAT! Now its easier to get on base than go through the McDonalds drive through !!!

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Vandenberg AFB (California) went to the DBIDS system last year, so I guess that all Air Force bases have shifted to it. I had to take my ID card in to the special DBIDS unit adjacent to the pass & tag office to get registered into their system. The process brought back memories of Camp Dewey (GLAKES) more than 60 years ago.

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All very interesting posts. Not sure what the status is at the Navy's Nuclear Prototype Training Unit here in Saratoga Springs NY. I was down there a couple of weeks ago to go to the Navy Federal Credit Union. We never had to have a vehicle decal - just show our I.D. card.
George - I hope that 60 years ago at Camp Dewey was a typo (possibly 50), or else you REALLY have more seniority on me than I thought. I went thru there (the old wooden barracks) - January to March of '59. That puts it at 52 years for me. You must have been there about the same time - right??.....Dee

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First of all Dee, I am sure George meant 50 because it will be 46 for me in December this year when I arrived at Camp Dewey, Great Lakes and saw my first Black Squirrel.
It is much more complicated, frustating, and requires much more documentation to re-new your Drivers License in the states that have adapted the "Federal ID ACT", all will soon, than it to get on any base with your vehicle. All better have proof of Birth, Divorce, and Marriage certificates for each name change which is different from your Birth Certificate. Not too bad for the Male but not so very friendly a process for the Females. "Look Out Washington DC" for the Females. The DMV has longer lines than ever here in Florida.
IT IS COMING TO A DMV NEAR YOU!!
Chuck

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I been to GLAKES several times in the last 5 years. Got ID cards and Decals there. Also meds. It's 100 miles one way from my house. Nice drive. in the summer. Not so nice in Jan-Feb. Lots of sailors there. Lots of boots marching around. Some buildings were there when you guys were there 50 years ago. I was in San Diego 59 to Jan 60.
chuck

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You never got a decal? They made me get one. Had it on my car until a semi iced my windshield. Now it is sitting in the glovebox. Last time I was, to go to the NFCU as well they just looked at the ID card. TOM

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Yeh Dee - it sure was 50 and not 60. Camp Barry was August 7-11, then Camp Dewey until graduation in mid-October 1959. You passed the test!!

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Jim, thanks for that news! After I retired in 2007, I moved to Florida, and the closest base is Eglin AFB. I was surprised when I learned the Air Force had done away with the base sticker requirement a year or so earlier. But when I went to Navy bases in Panama City or Pensacola, I had to get a vehicle pass, as my Navy base stickers had expired and my ID card wasn't sufficient.

I thought all the previous comments about the varying levels of base security were really interesting!

My last duty station before I retired was the submarine base in Bangor, WA, and by far they had the most strict main gate procedures of any place I'd been (except for NSB Kings Bay, GA, which had the same setup). They checked base stickers, license plates, scanned ID cards with that DBIDS thing, and then pulled aside vehicles randomly for a complete search. I can't count how many times my car was searched; it seemed like every third or fourth day my time would come. And that was just to gain entry to upper base - to get closer to the submarine piers meant going through several additional hurdles and inspections.

Around 2004, while I was living in base housing in Bangor, my wife was driving home through one of the two gates to the base. I was out to sea at the time. She had left her ID card at home. The civilian contractor at the gate would not let her through, even after she showed him her driver's license and vehicle registration with our on-base address on it. She ended up driving down to the other gate, where the guard was a little more forgiving.

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The DOD/Army Facility in New Cumberland, PA is about as bad, especially if you have a guest with you. Besides all the car stuff, you have to take your guest in to the ID office for fingerprints and photo so they can issue a photo ID clip on badge that you have to return when you depart the facility. All that to go to medical, the fitness center, and AAFES gas station. In this area there are also a Navy supply center and the Army was college. All we have to do is show her drivers license. The only reason I bother with the DOD is it's close to the house and hase the only gas station in the area and the money saved is worth it. Just my girlfriend doesn't go with me very often.

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Don't feel bad guys. Ditto here at Fort Lee, VA. It's a pain, but at least civilian cars can still get in. We've had the search treatment several times with a dog as well.

LCpl Jim Le Sesne (Rae's Grandson) is a USMC Ordnance Machinist at the new BRAC created Ordnance school located at Fort Lee, VA. Even though he's an E-3 bucking now for E-4 they won't allow him to have his car at the fort. He's not exactly infatuated being in a facility with a bunch of USCG, USN, Air Force and Army personnel, but that's orders. As the MOS leader, he's out there by 4:30AM every day preparing his MOS guys every day for the next PFT while the others are still sleeping. Marines are certainly a "driven bunch" of folks, just like Dad always said.

Him not having a car means we have to go pick him up and return him every weekend while he's at MOS school, which means re-registering the car every time.

I broke down crying a few weeks back when Jim was in my Dad's house and noticed the "Honorary Seabee" plaque Dad got in 1973. He looked and said..."Grandpa really get this plaque?" I said yes. "Not bad. Outside of the Corps these Sea Bees seem to be a good bunch of folks, especially the combat trained ones. I'd share a foxhole with them any day." I guess that's the highest complement a US Marine can give to another service member.

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