This is an older style, newer one is much longer and is only decal stickers, not put on with nuts and bolts...goes on driver side windshield just above the hood line.
This is an older style, newer one is much longer and is only decal stickers, not put on with nuts and bolts...goes on driver side windshield just above the hood line.
Just think of the long lines and SNAFU this will create at entrance gates.
I am retired Army in PA and routinely use the Carlisle Barracks facilities. The base stopped issuing new stickers a year or so ago but has not mandated that existing stickers be removed. Sticker or not, everybody has to go through security and show an ID. The situation you describe may be related to a local policy.
It’s true. My wife will be happy and I will be glad to get that ugly sticker off my beautiful truck.
http://www.navytimes.com/article/20130604/NEWS/306040027/Navy-eliminates-vehicle-decals
The USAF Base I work(and retired from) on(OFFUTT/ACC) has not had Base Stickers for over 10 years. I am now sure how the rest of the DoD operates. You have to show your CAC or DoD ID to be admitted to the base.
So, they won? We have so little control over our borders that anyone displaying a sticker showing military affiliation is at risk? Or are they afraid that the display of those specific registration stickers will enable counterfeiting? Time to go to an innocuous bar coding scheme.
Presumption is a threat exists, to you and family. As well cost reduction by dropping said stickers , process etc .... And the fact that this is just going to SOP that all ID’s are checked versus waving in a vehicle.
Also precludes an IED being placed on a snickered vehicle and letting you unknowingly deliver it on the base.
More inconvenient , better security.
My opinion as a retired EOD troop....
0bama does NOTHING to evoke patriotism for America. NOTHING. All he does is foment bitterness for America.
It was costing our base over a million $ a year to manage the program. It really is unnecessary since those authorized to enter the base are people not cars.
Navy has eliminated the need for decals on July 1st 2013. Marine Corps still requires decals (at least here in San Diego - MCAS Miramar, Camp Pendleton, and Recruit Depot in Point Loma.
I don’t recall much about stickers and cars from when I was in, but didn’t we used to just drive on to the base as long as we had a sticker?
If security is actually tight enough to check each driver and vehicle that comes on base now, then what purpose would the stickers serve?
Maybe someone finally got around to eliminating them.
Shouldn’t need stickers. They got a data base with your car’s license plate.
Navy Bases haven’t got the CLUE, yet.
SUBJ: USCG POV DECAL PROGRAM PRELIMINARY NOTICE OF TERMINATION
A. Physical Security and Force Protection Program, COMDTINST M5530.1 (series)
1. This ALCOAST announces the termination of the USCG POV DECAL program and amplifies the requirement for 100 percent ID card checks at all CG units. All designated CG issuing units shall plan to cease issuing CG POV decals no later than 01 JAN 2014. The formal termination of the CG POV DECAL Program is 30 SEP 2014. All CG issued decals should be removed from POV and destroyed by 31 DEC 2014. Members that access DOD bases requiring decals can apply/obtain a DOD decal from that installation.
2. Presently, the CG POV decal program is an optional program designed to provide Commanding Officers a tool to help regulate private vehicle traffic on CG units. It has also been used as a tool for security forces to ensure only authorized vehicle were aboard CG units. The program has become a redundant security and access control system over the past 8 years because a 100 percent personal ID check is now required to access all CG/DOD facilities. All vehicle occupants must possess a valid CG, DHS, or DOD issued identification card to gain access to CG units.
3. These policy changes do not impact the requirement that POVs seeking entrance to all CG/DOD facilities must be registered, inspected, and insured iaw State and local laws.
4. Iaw ref (a), a CO may disestablish their unit decal program prior to 30 Sep 2014 by following the below instructions.
a. A unit inventory must be conducted indicating the final disposition of all decals, issued and unused.
b. All unused decals shall be destroyed locally either by means of cross cut shredding or incineration.
c. Any unaccounted for decals shall be noted and reported to DCMS-34 via your cognizant Security Manager.
d. A memo signed by the issuing unit Commanding Officer shall be submitted to SECCEN with a copy to DCMS-34 and their cognizant Security Manager verifying local termination of the POV decal program.
5. Any questions concerning this ALCOAST should be directed to Randall Reau at (202)372-3703 or David Byrd at (202)372-3715.
6. VADM Manson K. Brown, Deputy Commandant for Mission Support, sends.
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One standard counterintelligence technique is to try to hide your assets, so they are not selected for special attention.
Putting a sticker on the car of every employee working inside the wire is the opposite of that. Not quite as bad as giving every employee with a top secret clearance a tattoo on their forehead, but almost.
Sure, it makes life tougher for the security guards. They have to look all the way past where your sticker used to be down to your ID card. Sure it is less convenient for the retiree. A terrorist putting a bomb under a car with a sticker on it is pretty inconvient too.
I would think that for civvies the sticker would be optional. However, if it is truly a possible terrorist threat then why would one want to have the stickers on their vehicles? If I were retired military and someone told me of a possible terroist threat because of my stickers I do believe that I would promptly, voluntarily remove them.
Just my two sense. ;-)
Our base stopped issuing new stickers at least 10 years ago. There is still a remnant with the base name on it on my old work car but the wife’s car doesn’t have any. They check everyone’s ID and scan it to make sure it is not a forgery and that you are not on a ban and bar. I have never been told to scrape off the sticker and I was just on base two days ago. Most of the intact stickers I see appear to be people who transferred in from other installations.
All of the military facilities I deal with have positive ID check of ALL personnel entering.
Interesting, only the Navy is pushing the stickers; the AF and Army have scrapped them. For work, I have one on my truck windshield, but no one has asked me to remove it.