Widespread DoD Base Entry Sticker Theft Reported [Al Qaeda Chatter Indicates December Action]

Soldiers for the Truth.Org -'The Voice of the Grunt' ^ | Nov. 23, 2002 | Paul Purcell and Col. David Hackworth

[ewing]

It has come to our attention that DoD decals have gone missing from a mulitiude of personally owned vehicles. This has not been happening in one particular location either. Theft reports of these base entry stickers have filtered in from a number of areas across the country.

We don't know to what extent this has been reported or dealt with, but we felt it was important enough to put the word out as a warning, a brainstorm topic and a request for action.

We have to consider the fact that not all installations have been hit as hard as others.Therefore reports are not filtering up as they should and conseqently the reactions of the powers that be,especially since the passage of the Homeland Security bill is causing everyone to focus on all the new restructuring, will be slow to take place. It may also be that the only bases aware of this potential theft are the ones that have experience an actual decal theft.

Recently intercepted Al Qaeda internet chatter and other indicators seem to indicate that something is being planned for December. We [at Voice of the Grunt] have no official word on this but indications do exist. What better way to disrupt any sort of reaction than do create a distraction in the very midst of our seemingly secure military installations?

The decals reported stolen have been the external, on the bumper decals than can be easily 'sweated' off. For bases that allow it, a clear adhesive laminate sheet, one that extends an inch or two beyond the edges of the decal, should be placed over the decal makng it much more difficult to remove.

[ewing]

God bless our brave men and women at their posts

[Illbay]

Internet Legends are fun.

[ewing]

It looks like the little ghouls have deicded to rear their ugly heads up again..

[archy]

More *Internet Legend* here.

[archy]

Base sticker theft at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. [USAF]

[CindyDawg]

I have two sons in the navy and both have stickers on their cars but each time I have visited they and everyone in the car have had to show IDS at both bases.

[ewing]

Looks like these little buggers are probing our security weaknesses again..(outside decal military Dod stickers on personal vehicles and such)

[SLB]

I have to show a picture ID going thru the Ft Knox gates every time I go to work. We even have to show them when traveling in government vehicles, both administrative and tactical, it does not matter if you are in uniform or civilian clothes. It looks like this article wants to breed some unfounded fear.

[ewing]

The article makes that point and requests a security password code that could change differently each day.

[ewing]

Funny how that Tennessee case didn't make the national news..

[Illbay]

And when the kids come out the next day to look at their car, there's a horrible HOOK dangling from the door-handle!!!

[Bryan24]

No Internet legend. In Huntsville, Alabama at Redstone Arsenal, we have had a least 2 instances of someone trying to steal the decal off of vehichles. One was while a woman was in the post office.

We have been alerted to this for months, officially. No joke here.

[harpseal]

The local bases also demand the full military id just to get into the non-secure part of the base (barracks and admin area). However, that part of the base is not secure. The decal alone would not do it.

What I would worry about is picture id being stolen with a different piclture substituted or counterfiet picture id in combination with decals to allow entry. Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[American in Israel]

Every tried to scrap a base sticker off of your car? You ain't getting it off in one piece. Once that sticker is on the car for a week, you will need a razor blade and a bunch of elbow grease. When you get done you have sticky shreds...

[pabianice]

The decals reported stolen have been the external, on the bumper decals than can be easily 'sweated' off. For bases that allow it, a clear adhesive laminate sheet, one that extends an inch or two beyond the edges of the decal, should be placed over the decal makng it much more difficult to remove.

Having had DOD decals for a long time, I can say this is disinformation. DOD decals cannot be "sweated off" as the adhesive is water insoluable. Further, they are made of a material that disintegrates if removed.

[Mr Rogers]

That was true when they put them on bumpers. Now we put them on windshields. I've removed my own intact when selling a car. And yes, there have been stickers stolen over the last year - but I don't know if that is unusual or not. In any case, it won't help someone get on any active duty base I've been at since 9/11.

[LasVegasMac]

My thoughts also.

I remember taking off - or at least trying - a sticker when I sold a car to someone non-military.

Nothing but shreds.

LVM

[ewing]

Is it possible that they are targeting longtime service people with decals that still may be valid?

[OldFriend]

Overseas bases require identification, they search the auto over under and in between. No base waves anyone through just on the strength of a sticker.