Veterans With 100% Disability

[Guest johnson123]

Dear Veteran's, 100 % Permanent Disabled,

You have the right to use ALL facilities on the Bases, including Legal Services. I now have a claim in and I now have a JAG that is my POA. I hope this information may help another Vet.

Johnson

[LarryJ]

As far as the DOD decals are concerned.....I don't know about the Air Farce...but, their almost total lack of "security" has always astounded me (and NO, two Air Force corporals with a dog IS NOT "security").

The base that I was referring Pete to go to to get his "new" ID is a Naval Air Station, combined with Reserve Components of all the other armed services. In other words it is a full-fledged Naval/Marine Air Station and also has Army, Air Force and Coast Guard reserve units.

It is a "100% ID Check" facility and that includes any vehicle (they require that your vehicle be ID'd with supporting decals primarily due to the fact that ALL vehicles that enter upon a US military installation have supporting insurance for liability purposes, etc., just like you don't get on a military installation without motorcycle helmets, regardless of whether the state that you might be in requires motorcycle helmets or not.).

Of course, this facility that I was referring to, also has a United States Justice Department high-security Lock Down facility for Federal Prisoners (read here, Taliban/Al Quada), so, that might be the reason for such strict security measures......that and the fact that it is ALSO "nuke" equipped a la Air Force).

[Pete53]

When you all say reserve base does that also include the Headquarters for Reserves as I have an Texas National Guard Building just a few blocks from where I live? Course it is scheduled to be closed soon.

[LarryJ]

National Guard = Texas

Reserve = U.S.

DD Form 2765 = Identifcation and Privilege Card (Sponsors AND Dependents as of Oct 2003) = tan.

Entitles you and dependents to Exchange, MWR (Morale, Welfare and Recreation) and

Commissary privileges.

Most ALL permanent U. S. Navy bases throughout the world have what is called the Navy Lodge, these are all relatively new facilities and are approximatley like Holiday Inn Express, but a WHOLE lot cheaper (Google 'em, you'll be in for a pleasant surprise, and, yes, if you are 100%, with a "tan" card, you'll be treated VERY well.).

Annnnd, if you talk veddy, veddy nice to the nice people at "space "A" flight reservations then you will find, even though you really aren't supposed to be "qualified" to receive Space A flights, that they are on a "as determined by CO" availability, which really means that if the E4 that answers the 'phone when you call feels like it, and his Base CO has NOT said otherwise......then YOU FLY (flew to Nellis AFB (read Las Vegas here) on the Admiral's Gulfstream....The Wife made me put on a tie....).....amazing what an E4 can do, ain't it?

[Chuck75]

The base CO and the service determines the policy at a base. A local base decided that if you have a valid ID card (not all flavors) and an instate license plate, you did not need a base sticker or vehicle pass.

Usually, sticker aside, they will register a car belonging to an ID card carrying Veteran or retiree.

The change was due to security, in that the vehicle sticker id's the car as belonging to someone that works or has other frequent business on the base, and thus makes them a target. Understand that the base has no "nukies" these days, and is mainly an overhaul, depot, and supply base, with several reserve units as well as the active military commands.

Purple, I don't know about the AF, but to get on an Army base, you need a decal on your vehicle or a "visitor's pass" from the visitor center. I am an Army retiree and to get on any Army base in Georgia, the ID card is not sufficient by itself.

[LarryJ]

The base CO and the service determines the policy at a base. A local base decided that if you have a valid ID card (not all flavors) and an instate license plate, you did not need a base sticker or vehicle pass.

Usually, sticker aside, they will register a car belonging to an ID card carrying Veteran or retiree.

The change was due to security, in that the vehicle sticker id's the car as belonging to someone that works or has other frequent business on the base, and thus makes them a target. Understand that the base has no "nukies" these days, and is mainly an overhaul, depot, and supply base, with several reserve units as well as the active military commands.

Yeah, you're most likely correct (even though the Air Force can, accidentally, fly all over hell and a half-acre with nukes in the racks, ooooops!).

But, yeah, they've taken all the fun outta everything........now let's all sing Kum Baya and the Russkie national anthem and praise Bill and Hill out the wazooo for them causing peace to break out all over the place..................

[mountain tyme]

Good Morning...I have been following this thread and I am compelled to bring out a point...regarding the JAG office...in this thread Guest_johnson123_*GuestMember has stated that he has received legal help from his local JAG office on base...some fervently take a stand that it is not possible...anything is possible...only because I know someone else that also received help from a law office on a military post.

Even though as stated earlier in this thread that it would be a conflict of interest...there are Military JAG officers and God Bless them...who have honor and respect for there fellow solider who needs help...esp. a solider that was injured in the line of duty to OUR GREAT COUNTRY...Once a solider always a solider...so yes even though a disable vet who is not a retiree is not entitled to legal services on base (per regulations) does not mean that there is not a JAG officer who will take there plight and help...To me that JAG officer who stood up to help this vet is extordinary to put himself in the line of fire is what we As a true American solider do for each other...to help and protect esp. help those that are wounded.

MT