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Comment by Patti (7/174) on May 10, 2011 at 9:28am

Sooo, where do we buy these Microcenter ones?

Comment by ColoradoConnie on May 10, 2011 at 8:06am

Barn Godess! Thanks for the heads up on the scrapbook. It never hurts to ask when you don't see something! Glad you had the coupon. There is nothing better than finding what you're looking for and getting it at a great price too!!

Comment by ColoradoConnie on May 10, 2011 at 7:38am

Hi everyone! We finally heard from our SR's gf last night ! Our Son has been down with pink eye, sinus infection and pneumonia! I certainly hope the whole 927 isn't down with it! One of the ladies in the 927 discussion group also said her husband has had pneumonia as well. They are still set to PIR on May 20th! Wow! what a time to be so sick!! They are definitely going to be NAVY Strong to get through what lies ahead!! Asking for special healing thoughts and prayers for the SR's of the 927!!

Comment by Craig on May 10, 2011 at 2:09am

Brandis - Totally agree with you.  The CAC is soooo important.   My thing is I hate seeing new sailors looking stupid for asking for certain duty station that don't exist for their ratings.  It shows that they are not doing their research and just going with the "easier wrong way rather than the harder correct way" by looking for duty stations for their dream sheets.  If they don't care, then why should the detailer? 

 

I have wrote about the CAC card readers for years now.  I run the Cryptology group here at N4M, along with my own deppers forum website.   I was actually doing a search for my normal CAC card answer so I could just cut & paste it for a member.  When I did my search, this PIR group came up (probably because you guys were just talking about it).

 

gfr - Personally, I like the one at the Micro Center since it can do 63 different things besides being a "Smart Card Reader", and because it's cheap. Unlike the NEX model, the Microcenter comes with the software and is totally "Plug-n-Play".  It's a no brainer.  I say this everytime, but I will say it again, your sailor will think it's a stupid gift.  However, once they play with it, and see's how powerful it actually is and how he can search for things from the comfort of his own room, he will think it's the best thing since slided bread.  Again, the power it has is awesome...

 

 

 

Comment by Brandis_Mom on May 10, 2011 at 1:54am

Click on this link http://www.bootcamp.navy.mil/upcoming_grads.asp once there you follow the instructions, you will need the very first form letter your SR sent to you, on the inside of it, you will have a password that you will need to either print out or save the pdf file that the gate pass is in, just click on the printer icon or the little icon that looks like a computer disk to save it to a file on your computer.  Once you have the gate pass printed out, you just add the information that it asks for.  You can print out as many as you need.  If you need more help, just ask and if I am not online to help you, I am sure someone else will.

Comment by drewsmom on May 10, 2011 at 1:05am

How the heck do you print a gate pass???????????

Comment by gfr16 on May 9, 2011 at 11:01pm

Craig is there certain brand or link you could share? I am afraid I would buy the wrong one. Thanks!

Comment by Brandis_Mom on May 9, 2011 at 10:57pm

Thanks Craig for your detailed answer, my husband and myself could not agree with you more. But you explained it better then anyone could have and you took all the guesswork out of what a CAC reader is and why it is so important.

Comment by Craig on May 9, 2011 at 9:39pm

Hey ladies... A member on the Cryptology group had a question about the CAC card reader, and  I was actually trying to find a post that I made about CAC card readers that I made earilier and I ended up finding your group.  Since I see you guys had question, I thought I'd answer them real quick.... Hope you guys don't mind...It's kind of long.... 

 

Some of your sailors will have really short "A" schools.  One item in "A"  school is your sailors fill out a dream sheet to put down places that they would like to go.    These dream sheets stay in your record forever and when a new one is submitted, the old one just moves one sheet back in the computer.  One thing is you don't want is to look like a fool and put in for some duty station that your rating will never go.  Say you put in for Liberia Africa, the only rating that can go there is the IS rating.  So everytime your orders comes up, the detailer will get a laugh and wonder why a Machist Mate (MM) ever put in for something that couldn't have ever been possible.  It doesn't look good, even if the sailor is fresh out of boot camp.  It shows they didn't take the time to see what billets (places) that they could actually go.  Yes, they can use the CAC card readers at their career counselors office  but they have 50 others waiting for the same computer.  So just pay the measly $20 for the reader and do it from the comfort of your own barracks room. 

Yes, when they finally get to their final duty station their command might issue them one, but by then it's too late.  To me, paying $20 for the possiblity of getting an awesome duty station is worth it.  Heck my kid got 3 years of shore duty in Hawaii, but he knew how to play the game (and he has an awesome father ~ha)  

Here is what I wrote before:

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bcordova - The Navy limits what civilians can see when they use the internet on the Navy website. They don't want everyone to know everything. So when active duty sailors want to look at duty stations that are available, or a wide range of other things (ie their medical reconds, dental records, their personnel file, their PFA test scores, future duty stations...etc) they can. All they do is hook up the CAC card reader to their personnel computer, insert their CAC (Common Access Card) which civilains call the ID card,  Once the sailor inserts the CAC card, and their own password, then the server knows beyond a shadow of a doubt, that they are talking to the active duty sailor.

Personnally, I believe a sailor without a CAC card reader is a fool. There is so much info they can find using it. A carpenter is useless without a hammer. A sailor is useless without a CAC card reader. It is an extremely powerful tool that most sailors fail to use.  My nephew is already looking at possible duty stations, and he isn't even in "A" school yet.  They cost ~$20.  Very cheap.  Make sure you don't but the ones at the NEX because they don't work because they don't have the software included.  I bought one at the Microcenter and it worked perfectly.  That web address is in the below link.

 

Go look at this link, I posted everthing about it. 

http://www.navyfamilies.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=17616

 

For those that have already bought these reader, and if your sailors have problems loading them up (which they shouldn't).   Here is an article that was in the Navy-Times. I guess this guy runs a help desk for those having trouble with their CAC card readers. My nephew said it was so easy to connect up, but what is easy for some, may be hard for others. It's funny, because the guys an Army guy, but I guess the Navy thought it was so good that they wrote about it....

Here's the article, and the website listed is www.militarycac.com

Comment by mapes on May 9, 2011 at 9:10pm

I wondered about that to.  I dont recognize mine in there.

 

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