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Real-Time Automated Personnel Identification System
The Real-Time Automated Personnel Identification System (RAPIDS) is a United States Department of Defense (DoD) system used to issue the definitive credential within DoD. RAPIDS uses information stored in the DoD Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) when providing these credentials. Used together, these two systems are commonly referred to as a DEERS/RAPIDS system or DEERS/RAPIDS infrastructure. Objectives {{Unreferenced section, date=October 2019 RAPIDS performs the following functions: #Authenticating individuals #Capturing unique identifying characteristics #Providing a distinct identification credential Authenticating individuals RAPIDS ensures that DoD identification credentials are provided only to personnel with a current and appropriate affiliation with the DoD Capture unique identifying characteristics RAPIDS captures identifying characteristics that are unique and are used to bind an individual to the information maintained in DEERS and in line with t ...
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United States Department Of Defense
The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an United States federal executive departments, executive department of the federal government of the United States, U.S. federal government charged with coordinating and supervising the six U.S. armed services: the United States Army, Army, United States Navy, Navy, United States Marine Corps, Marines, United States Air Force, Air Force, United States Space Force, Space Force, the United States Coast Guard, Coast Guard for some purposes, and related functions and agencies. As of November 2022, the department has over 1.4 million active-duty uniformed personnel in the six armed services. It also supervises over 778,000 National Guard (United States), National Guard and reservist personnel, and over 747,000 civilians, bringing the total to over 2.91 million employees. Headquartered at the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., the Department of Defense's stated mission is "to provid ...
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Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System
Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) is a computerized database for United States Service members, military retirees, 100% VA Disabled Veterans, dependents, DoD active Contractors, and others worldwide who are entitled to Public Key Infrastructure and TRICARE eligibility. DEERS is used in the Real-Time Automated Personnel Identification System (RAPIDS). RAPIDS is United States Department of Defense system to issue the definitive credential within DoD for obtaining Common Access Card tokens in the DoD PKI. Used together, these two systems are referred to as a DEERS/RAPIDS stations, available in 700 locations in the world. With the expansion of base exchange online shopping privileges to all honorably discharged veterans beginning in 2017, the DEERS database is also used to verify non-disabled veterans' eligibility for the Veteran online shopping benefit. History DEERS was created in the late 1970s as a Joint Medical/Personnel Database, and first put into ope ...
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Geneva Convention
upright=1.15, The original document in single pages, 1864 The Geneva Conventions are international humanitarian laws consisting of four treaties and three additional protocols that establish international legal standards for humanitarian treatment in war. The singular term ''Geneva Convention'' colloquially denotes the agreements of 1949, negotiated in the aftermath of the Second World War (1939–1945), which updated the terms of the two 1929 treaties and added two new conventions. The Geneva Conventions extensively define the basic rights of wartime prisoners, civilians and military personnel; establish protections for the wounded and sick; and provide protections for the civilians in and around a war-zone. The Geneva Conventions define the rights and protections afforded to those non-combatants who fulfill the criteria of being '' protected persons''. The treaties of 1949 were ratified, in their entirety or with reservations, by 196 countries. The Geneva Convention ...
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United States Uniformed Services Privilege And Identification Card
A United States Uniformed Services Privilege and Identification Card (also known as U.S. military ID, Geneva Conventions Identification Card, or less commonly abbreviated USPIC) is an identity document issued by the United States Department of Defense to identify a person as a Military personnel, member of the Armed Forces or a member's Military dependent, dependent, such as a child or spouse. The card is used to control access to List of American military installations, US military installations, Base exchange (such as Army and Air Force Exchange Service, AAFES, Navy Exchange, Marine Corps Exchange, Coast Guard Exchange), Defense Commissary Agency, commissaries and Morale, Welfare and Recreation, Morale Welfare and Recreation (MWR) facilities. It also serves as proof of eligibility for medical care delivered either directly within the Military Health System, military health system or non-military providers via the TRICARE medical system. The modern military identification car ...
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Commissary (store)
A commissary is a store for provisions which can include prepared foods for eating either on-premises or off-premises. It is usually run within an organization such as a mining operation, a steel mill, a corporate center, or a government or military unit, and is usually primarily for the use of employees. Eligibility Eligible patrons of United Nations Commissaries include * diplomatic members of Permanent Mission * officials of the United Nations Office * officials of other UN entities * heads of delegations of UN Member States Eligible patrons of US Military Commissaries include * active-duty personnel * retired service members * Guard and Reserve personnel * immediate family members of service personnel * Purple Heart recipients * Medal of Honor recipients * former prisoners of war * veterans with any service-connected disability * caregivers registered with the VA's Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers program. U.S. military commissary benefits U.S. Military ...
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Identity Documents Of The United States
Identity may refer to: * Identity document * Identity (philosophy) * Identity (social science) * Identity (mathematics) Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Identity'' (1987 film), an Iranian film * ''Identity'' (2003 film), an American mystery psychological thriller film * ''Identity'' (2025 film), a Malayalam action-thriller film * ''Identity'' (game show), an American game show * ''Identity'' (TV series), a British police procedural drama television series * "Identity" (''Arrow''), a 2013 episode * "Identity" (''Burn Notice''), a 2007 episode * "Identity" (''Charlie Jade''), a 2005 episode * "Identity" (''Legend of the Seeker''), a 2008 episode * "Identity" (''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' episode), a 2005 episode * "Identity" (''NCIS: Los Angeles''), a 2009 pilot episode * "Identity" (''Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle''), a 2011 episode Music Albums * ''Identity'' (3T album), 2004 * ''Identity'' (BoA album), 2010 * ''Identity'' (Far E ...
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