ARMY PCS decal question

[DELETE-PLEASE]

I'm going to be PCSing from Ft Hood to Ft Gordon early next year. Will any DOD decals on my vehicles automatically get me in to Ft Gordon, or do I need to get NEW decals? Can I just register my vehicles with them and tell them my current decal numbers instead of scraping the old ones off with a razor blade and applying new ones?

I don't want to have to take a razor blade to my vehicles nor go through all sorts of hassles if I don't need to, and as my bike is a daily driver, I will do my best to make sure I have a decal before leaving Fort Hood (gotta get back from deployment and schedule some rider courses to do so), and be able to use it to go from place to place to inprocess.

Thanks.

Alexi

 

[iCruze]

I'm going to be PCSing from Ft Hood to Ft Gordon early next year. Will any DOD decals on my vehicles automatically get me in to Ft Gordon, or do I need to get NEW decals? Can I just register my vehicles with them and tell them my current decal numbers instead of scraping the old ones off with a razor blade and applying new ones?
I don't want to have to take a razor blade to my vehicles nor go through all sorts of hassles if I don't need to, and as my bike is a daily driver, I will do my best to make sure I have a decal before leaving Fort Hood (gotta get back from deployment and schedule some rider courses to do so), and be able to use it to go from place to place to inprocess.

Thanks.

Alexi

You normally have to turn in the decals from the base you are pcs'ing from and register you vehicles at your new base/post once you arrive. However, DOD is going away from decals so hopefully once you turn in the old ones you wont need new ones.

 

[DELETE-PLEASE]

Excellent info. Thanks. I heard the AF bases are no-decal at this point. Maybe army will go there. Time will tell I guess.

Alexi

 

[Wanderer]

You normally have to turn in the decals from the base you are pcs'ing from and register you vehicles at your new base/post once you arrive. However, DOD is going away from decals so hopefully once you turn in the old ones you wont need new ones.

Negatron, Particle man.

I still have the FT CAMPBELL, KY sticker on my car and have been stationed at FT CARSON, CO for 4 years.

It only matters that you have a DoD decal permanently affixed to the vehicle. They don't care where you got them. The decal is literally a military license plate and registers your car DoD-wide. I actually don't recall even visiting the PMO office when I PCS'd here before I had to register a new vehicle.

You only have to surrender your decal when it is too faded to read, you ETS/retire or sell the vehicle.

Keep your sticker bro.

Welcome home.

 

[JimLor]

Almost, you keep your sticker when you retire if you like.

 

[fljab]

Almost, you keep your sticker when you retire if you like.

I am retired Navy; I get my Base sticker from NAS Key West, FL, which is ~400 miles away. There are closer bases, but having one from KW is kinda cool IMO.

I have to take the Sport rider course to get the FJR in; haven't had it down there yet...

 

[Bandit12]

I retired in 1999 from Barksdale AFB in Louisiana. When I bought my bike I was in Dover DE and registered it there. Now I live in Quincy CA and the closest base is Beale. I still have the Dover Stickers on the bike and nothing on the car. Just show my ID at the gate and I'm granted access. The stickers are DOD registered, the base decal you afix below the DOD sticker is color coded to identify rank. Blue is officer, gold is NCO, red is junior enlisted, green is civilian. The AF used to require a expiration sticker next to the DOD and base decals, but they don't anymore.

 

[Wanderer]

Almost, you keep your sticker when you retire if you like.

Doh. I don't know why I typed 'retire'. I know you get to keep it.