HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. – 66th Security Forces Squadron personnel listed below are reminding Hanscom residents and guests to abide by the set up’s recreational vehicle and rideshare policies.
According to officers, the reinforcement of RV tips follows an increase in improper recreational vehicle use throughout Hanscom.
“With the spike in summer activities, SFS has been seeing an increase in recreational vehicles randomly parked around the installation,” stated Senior Master Sgt. Ronald Young, operations superintendent, 66th Security Forces Squadron.
According to base coverage, personnel should park their RVs within the base RV lot, positioned within the civil engineering compound, adjoining to constructing 1811 on Grenier Street. However, earlier than storing an RV there, the proprietor should register with Outdoor Recreation. A number of exceptions embrace base housing, the place RVs will be parked for as much as 24 hours, and one of many many non permanent or marked areas across the base, that are acceptable for short-term repairs or cleansing.
To register your RV, contact the Outdoor Recreation Center at 781-225-6621.
A number of different tips to notice:
Trailers longer than 28 toes will not be thought-about RVs; they’re categorized as home trailers. Incoming Hanscom personnel will need to have orders authorizing them to journey with their home trailer. They should then make preparations to park their trailers on the 66th Force Support Squadron-run FamCamp. Outgoing personnel whose journey orders don’t authorize them to maneuver with their trailers should promote or in any other case get rid of them earlier than the proprietor departs the set up.
For these fascinated by utilizing their RVs, the close by FamCamp campsite is open to all eligible navy and DOD cardholders. They provide 73 RV websites, 56 full-hookup websites with water, sewer, and electrical and 17 partial-hookup websites with water and electrical. In addition, it additionally gives 10 tent tenting websites.
Other FamCamp amenities embrace bathhouses, a coin-operated laundry facility, an outside pavilion, and mountaineering trails.
All approved personnel, together with navy members, dependents, retirees, and Department of Defense civilian staff that function rental vans, RVs, or towing trailers carrying campers, boats, bikes, and all-terrain automobiles that aren’t business in nature, are allowed base entry with out requiring a search.
Go-carts, motorized scooters, and mechanical carts, supplied they’re designated as low-speed automobiles, are approved to be used on base. Snowmobiles, ATVs, dust bikes, and different off-road motorized automobiles will not be permitted.
The security workplace recommends “personnel working Go-carts, motorized scooters, and mechanical carts, put on a Snell or U.S. Department of Transportation permitted helmet if working low velocity vehicle on the bottom roadways,” stated Master Sgt. Henrie Young, operational security superintendent, 66th Air Base Group.
Senior Master Sgt. Ronald Young has additionally obtained many questions concerning base entry for rideshare and meals supply providers. A number of tips he notes, embrace:
Rideshare providers corresponding to Uber, Lyft, The Ride, limo, or taxis, in addition to meals supply providers corresponding to UberEats, Grubhub, and DoorDash, will be processed onto the set up. The sponsor requesting these providers should contact the Base Defense Operations Center to offer their info, together with identify, DOD identification quantity, contact info, date of beginning, the supply tackle, in addition to the contact info of the motive force.
Once the supply has been correctly vetted, a Defense Biometrics Identification System, or DBIDS, cross will likely be issued to the motive force for 20 minutes. Entry management will make the most of the sponsor’s info to concern the cross. The service driver’s cell quantity should be recorded on the customer cross. A cursory examine of the vehicle will likely be performed previous to entry.
While on base, entry management will preserve bodily custody of the supply driver’s license till she or he exits the set up. Upon exiting, the supply individual will alternate the customer cross for his or her driver’s license. If the person doesn’t return in half-hour, the BDOC will dispatch a patrol to the supply location and try to contact the sponsor.
To contact the BDOC, name 781-225-5000.