Comments on: DoD to Remove SSN from All ID Cards

By: Ryan Guina

Ryan Guina — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:42:05 +0000

Cornelia, you need to contact the closest base for more information. They can help you get a replacement card.

By: Cornelia Pleasants

Cornelia Pleasants — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:26:27 +0000

Hello, Thanks for the good info…But still I can not figure out how to secure a replacement retirement DOD Id card–not because of the SS#, but because
it is lost. I have spent hours on the WEB and nothing is clear.
The program RAPIDS can not the accessed from my computer for
some reason. Any advice? I am in Charlotte NC.

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:59:32 +0000

As a retired military person living in the boonies of PA there is no need for my military ID except when my family goes to get medical attention. The requirement for the ID card so my wife can verify my SSN for Tri-care is necessary. Is the Government going to send out notifications to medical providers about our new identification for health care and that our SSN is no longer availble? Are we going to get Social Security Cards with our pictures on it? I say a picture ID with thumb print is an idea. I have no problem with taking off SSN especially since I was stationed in Virginia where we had our SSN on our license until they took it off. Although that created some problems for awhile until people got used to it.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 02:40:20 +0000

Thanks Ryan! You answered my question. =D

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:22:43 +0000

Samantha, I don’t believe businesses or financial institutions are required to take military ID cards as a form of identity. I’ve not had good luck with it in the past, with the exception of when I was on base or in a military community. Many people outside of military communities aren’t trained to recognize official military IDs like they are state IDs such as driver’s licenses or official state ID cards.

By: samantha

samantha — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 06:18:28 +0000

I went to the bank ‘Golden1′ today and they refuse to take my military id because it doesn’t have my social security # on it. I don’t understand that because CA state license doesn’t even contain that kind of information so why so strict on the military id?

By: Jean

Jean — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:57:31 +0000

The SSN has been a joke for over 30 years. Everybody wanted to get your SSN to control you and it ended up slapping everybody in the face. Some states like Virginia and Washington, D. C. required you to place your SSN on your drivers license until someone got smart and filed a class action suite reminding them that it was a privacy act. Now isn’t that funny? The trick is to maintain One world order and they are constantly trying to figure out how to proceed. Take another look at your bank statement and even though it has been changed from one bank to another, you have the same account number. I realized after about 8 years and the banks changing hands, that I had the same account number for over 20 years. Now isn’t that a kick in the head? You see the SSN is not the only set of numbers controling people.

By: Hank

Hank — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:48:28 +0000

Ryan: You’re right. The military should bring back serial numbers like our grandfathers had in WWII that have nothing to do with your finances.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:35:20 +0000

Hank: I think it’s an excellent program and should have been done twenty years ago. I think military members should get a unique military ID number, which could be used instead of using social security numbers on every form imaginable. When I was living in the dorms and eating in the chow hall, we were required to write our full SSN on a sheet of paper which was left out in the open. I still don’t know how my ID was never stolen.

By: Hank

Hank — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:29:28 +0000

This is a great change that the government is making especially for members of the military who are punished by a spouse losing ID cards with the sponsor’s social on it!