MountaineerTom
LJ Enthusiast, Retired USAF Weapons Loader
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Shaw probably never got the memo. I’m so glad I never got stationed there.
LOL
It wasn’t as bad as a lot of people say.
Shaw probably never got the memo. I’m so glad I never got stationed there.
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.
POV no longer have to have a base sticker on them?Base decals are no longer issued.
POV no longer have to have a base sticker on them?
Shaw probably never got the memo. I’m so glad I never got stationed there.
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.POV no longer have to have a base sticker on them?
This article says the the Marine Corps was the last service to get rid of them a few years ago.Is that a DoD wide thing? I know USAF bases did away with them about a decade ago, but those are the only ones I frequent.
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 biggest problem with communication is the illusion it happens .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.
looks like someone ran the gate coming in.