The Navy announced earlier this year they & Marines are ending the decal, although some facilities are asking for a waiver to keep using them.
How did they announce it?
The Navy announced earlier this year they & Marines are ending the decal, although some facilities are asking for a waiver to keep using them.
Negative. We had blue ones as mids.Purple is used for military Academy cadets
And I imagine if they do go away from decals, they'll find as the AF did, that unless it's DoD-wide, it's useless. Operating on another service's base is more or less the norm nowadays, TAD or PCS.
Personally, I don't see the point of stickers anymore. It was one thing when the gate guard would wave a stickered car through, but if they're always going to check the driver's ID, it seems pretty redundant and time-wasting. Stickering for special parking access - like flight line, pier, CO/XO, O-6+ - is one thing, but what exactly does a base sticker do that checking the driver's ID doesn't?
And on that subject.. What exactly is the gate guard checking for on the back of my ID.. It takes them an extra 2-3 seconds to hand it to them so they can flip it over and look at the back, which multiplied by the numbers of cars coming in the gate.. Makes a normal backup back up onto the highway.......
Flash beat me to it. Plus, there was something that came out from NCIS locally (in the Norfolk area) of a man and woman trying to get on base with faked CAC cards. The mandatory checking of the back happened immediately after that.Much easier to forge/fake just one side of an ID than both.
I thought that was the main premise of the sticker - verification that your vehicle's paperwork was up to speed. If they do away with the stickers, how in the world will the Navy be able to needlessly duplicate the efforts of civilian law enforcement?I drove to Millington this weekend, and they still require the DoD sticker. I told the gate guard that the AFB I work at doesn't require a sticker, and that the Navy had issued a memo earlier this year that the Navy was doing away with stickers too. He said "not in Millington". I don't see the purpose of the stickers if they're checking my ID card to get on base. After the guard took my military ID, license, proof of insurance, and registration back to guard shack, it took him about 15 minutes to hand write me a gate pass to get on base. What a waste of my time and his.