New CAC Cards Coming
I don’t know about everyone else out there but I don’t like the new CAC system:
The new IDs feature a hard-to-copy blue background instead of white and have an additional watermark-type print to thwart would-be forgers.
In addition, Dixon said, the chips embedded in the cards will contain digital photographs, digital fingerprint scans and other identifying information to help officials make sure the person carrying the card is actually its lawful holder.
Plans for which employees or servicemembers will see the first new sets have not been announced, but eventually everyone will get a new card when their old one expires. But, Dixon said, no one will have to turn in their old cards before they expire.
The reason I don’t like the CAC system is that to access your computer at work or even your Army AKO E-mail account from home you need to have a CAC reader to put your card into. What happens is that at work people forget their ID card in the reader and then go off post for lunch and can’t get back on post because their ID card is sitting in the CAC reader. I can’t remember how many times people called me to go and get them signed in on post because they forgot their ID cards in the reader. Maybe it is just me.
