Base Access

Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS) is a government-owned access control system. DBIDS is a DoD identity authentication and force protection tool that is fully operational in military locations around the world. Utilizing a combination of biometric and smartcard-based cryptographic authentication, DBIDS prevents unauthorized access attempts while also identifying personnel with law enforcement alerts. DBIDS is utilized for MCB Hawaii/Camp Smith Contractor credentials for contractors/vendors/service providers and other non-DoD affiliated personnel/guest requiring unescorted installation access. There is no cost for a DBIDS credential.

Personnel with a Common Access Card or a variation of the Uniformed Services Identification Card are automatically enrolled in DBIDS after their first ID scan by the gate sentry upon entering MCB Hawaii, Camp H. M. Smith, or Pu’uloa Rifle Range Complex.

More information is available via the links at the bottom of this page.

Expansion of Patronage for Certain Veterans and Certain Caregivers for Veterans

Starting Jan. 1, 2020, the Department of Defense authorized all service-connected Veterans, Purple Heart recipients, former prisoners of war (POW), and individuals approved and designated as the primary family caregivers of eligible Veterans under the Department of Veterans Affairs Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers (PCAFC) can use commissaries, exchanges, and morale, welfare and recreation (MWR) retail facilities, in-person and online.

*Primary caregivers do not have and will not be granted sponsorship privileges.

On your first visit to MCB Hawaii, visit the Visitors Center, building 1637, MCB Hawaii, or the Pass and Registration Office, Camp Smith, and present your Veterans Health Identification Card (VHIC). The VHIC must identify your eligibility status as Service-Connected, Medal of Honor, Purple Heart, Former POW, or a combination thereof. Veterans not in possession of a VHIC are also authorized to present a VA Health Eligibility Center (HEC) Form H623A and a REAL ID compliant driver’s license or identification card.

Provide a second form of government identification that verifies your social security number (Social Security Card, Taxpayer Identification Number, or Certificate of Naturalization).The clerk will conduct an on the spot background check and proceed to register your VHIC card in the Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS) upon a favorable outcome and ask you to provide required biographical information. This process can take 5 – 10 minutes and when completed, you are successfully registered for Base access.

Please present your VHIC to the gate sentry each time you visit the Base, where it will be scanned to verify your Base access eligibility. For additional MCBH access information, please view or download this brochure.

All base access denials are per Base Order 5532.1 disqualifiers. Information on how to obtain a Base Access Waiver will be provided to those individuals that have an unfavorable background check. Click here for information on how to obtain a Base Access Waiver.

All privately owned firearms and other weapons transported aboard the installation must comply with Base Order 5532, Chapter 5, and be registered with the Provost Marshal’s Office.

For additional information, visit:

https://www.blogs.va.gov/VAntage/67974/commissary-military-service-exchange-mwr-access-extended-veterans-beginning-january/

To view and download the Expanded Access at Commissaries, Exchanges and Recreation Facilities - Fact Sheet, visit:

https://www.militaryonesource.mil/products#!/detail/780

MARADMIN 713/19:

https://www.marines.mil/News/Messages/Messages-Display/Article/2047368/access-control-in-support-of-the-expansion-of-patronage-for-certain-veterans-an/