Damn, just got a non-expiring retired ID in July (after a month wait).
Just wait a couple of years and get a new one. If you have a spouse, that ID lasts only 3 years, you can both go in and get the new one then. I’m taking my wife in to get her ID card renewed next week, but she’ll probably get the ‘old’ one as I doubt if the Indiana National Guard Armory nears us is one of the “20 locations” currently issuing them. I’ll get my Indefinite Card replaced when we have to renew hers in 3 years.
>>Damn, just got a non-expiring retired ID in July (after a month wait).<<
Hey, my wife and I just got ours last month and it is still the old style; even though, we got them at one of the largest bases in the states. You would think they would have had the new style up and running. Didn’t hear about this until afterwards. Rats!
This will be the 3rd time for me.
I retired in 1998. Card did not expire.
Sometime, around 2017, they said we had to get new cards due to SSAN bring on the old ones.
In this instance, I was never told. I don’t go on base/post much anymore, and was refused entry! So I went to pass and ID, got a temporary pass and went to the CBPO (or whatever it is called now) to get a new one. Then I found out I, as a lower-valued retiree, had to make an appointment, because you just can’t go to the help desk and get help unless you’re active duty. I didn’t know this, either. No kidding! I went there (not knowing the new rule), signed in. No one ahead of me. Waited 5 minutes, and an airman told me that since I was a retiree he could NOT take me without an appointment. I said, Airman, there’s no one here beside me. He said, din’t matter—you are a retiree. I then spoke to a SSgt who said the same. Not wanting to be a Karen, I did not ask to speak to the Chief, so I made an appointment. So I got to get new one ID Card after several weeks.
Now I’ll have to do it again. I won’t put it off till 2026, if I’m still alive, I’ll make an appointment.