Quite late to this thread, but hopefully I can offer some insight.
Hello all, I am a medically retired veteran myself, and am currently working as a DACP for a military installation. I started here as a security guard right as this policy took place. It's very unfortunate the difficulty many of you are going through and I myself wish that it could be easier. In the policy that allows service-connected veterans access it also states after a favorable background check. It's very unclear, when I was a guard, I would make every veteran go and get one, and yes it would take a while depending on if others were at the pass house or not. Other guards I worked with from different shifts would sometimes just send them through or give them ridiculous pass lengths (5-10 years). So, I was always deemed the bad guard by veterans for following the policy. To this day there is no clear instruction from my chain of command, the individual who is supposed to be in charge of post access procedures has never corrected the guards that just allowed veterans to go (to my knowledge). My pass house is however open 24/7, which seems like it would appeal to most of you if more bases were. In short, it's a process, an unclear one, hopefully it will be hastened if enough people speak up.
