Shitty drive on to base for this TJ owner

Navy base in Memphis quit issuing them years ago. And Fort Campbell didn't ask me about one when I've drove up there.

Both just ask to see your military ID card.
 
From what I understand some Navy bases still use them for some reason. I haven’t had one since around 2005.

You know what, now that I think about it you might be right. The wife and I stayed over on Whidbey Island NAS a couple of years ago while on vacation and the gate guard made me hand over the vehicle registration & insurance like we used to do on USAF bases in an unregistered vehicle.
 
You know what, now that I think about it you might be right. The wife and I stayed over on Whidbey Island NAS a couple of years ago while on vacation and the gate guard made me hand over the vehicle registration & insurance like we used to do on USAF bases in an unregistered vehicle.

Might be bases with nuclear powered ships are the deciding factor there. When I was on a sub tender in Charleston, no one got on or off that pier with the subs tied up to it that wasn't ID checked. No one.
 
POV no longer have to have a base sticker on them?

Every base I've been on in the past decade or so. The claim i heard was that with GWOT, the base decals made it too easy to ID military member's POVs. And it used to not be too overly difficult to buy a used car with one on it near a military base.
 
Shaw probably never got the memo. I’m so glad I never got stationed there.

I just realized you were probably talking about the base decals. No, Shaw hasn’t used them since probably the 90’s. I thought you were talking about the barricades.
 
We were told to remove our decals years ago. Another bi-product of 9/11. Remove decals and redesign the gates at all the bases.. auto traps, multiple barricades and S-turns, etc.
 
POV no longer have to have a base sticker on them?
When I bought my GMC Sierra new in 2015 I tried going on the NAS Jacksonville website that I was familiar with to apply for DOD sticker for it. The site was down each time I tried over a few days so I called to complain. They explained to me that they had not issued stickers in a couple of years. I had no idea as I was retired before then.

https://www.public.navy.mil/usff/Pages/end_of_dod_decal_program.aspx
 
We were told to remove our decals years ago. Another bi-product of 9/11. Remove decals and redesign the gates at all the bases.. auto traps, multiple barricades and S-turns, etc.

The physical defense measures were because of the increased threat, but the stickers were mostly done away with because they had long outlived their purpose. Its sad that it took until 2006 or 07 to actually get rid of them.

Back in the day one state could not easily run plates from another state because there wasn't a common database. So, the DoD came out with the stickers that would allow the base police to search for the name of an owner if they had out of state plates. That all stopped being a problem some time in the 1990's when they came out with NCIC and plates from just about anywhere were easily searched.
It saved a crap ton of money every year by getting rid of them.

Plus, we were no longer waiving in traffic, so they were nothing but a complete waste. There was some potential that they could be a risk if someone sold a car and didn't remove the sticker, or because it would identify someone as being associated with the DoD out in town, but those reasons werent really too much of a problem.

The S turns piss me off to this day. They dont do anything but make it hard for the snow plows to clear the road.
 
Thinking back I realized they scrapped my sticker when I checked out of MCAS New River with recruiting duty orders in late 96'. I EASd Dec 98' from Houston, so it's entirely possible they had begun phasing out the stickers and I just never realized it as my last two years active were 100% in a civilian environment...
 
Long ago when I was stationed in KS, there was a base exercise and the dispatcher said “gate 1 don’t engage your barrier” all the dude at the gate heard was “engage your barrier” so he did, and the poor brand new Airman that he had just let through hit the thing going about 15 mph in a brand new Ford Escort. The car was totaled and her arm was broken.

Those things are designed to stop a full loaded semi going 70 mph, and it will stop them dead in their tracks.

To this day that dude still hasn’t been able to live that incident down and probably never will.
The biggest problem with communication is the illusion it happens .
 
Little while back when I was leaving work on Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Don’t know the back story, but do know they stepped up security for a while after this.
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