Quote Originally Posted by bruce.desertrat View Post
I suspect it's more they're not allowed to accept passports for some reason, not that they won't accept or trust them. The base has some pretty weird security.

And it's not like anything there is a state secret or anything. I mean, heck they have B52's and B1's visibly destroyed on the ground visible to satellites as a part of treaty compliance. (1991 SALT, iirc) http://cdn.neonsky.com/4bd5ebf97479c...216-0276-1.jpg

It's simpler and stupider than you think. Many places ONLY subscribe to ID services that understand US driver's licence bar codes. I found out about that when a bank needed a scan of both sides of "a government issued ID". Ok, here's my passport data page and to be more complete a scan of my Russian visa in it and the covers with the serial number. Nope, no good. by "government issued ID" they mean US driver's license and nothing else. The scan of the back is all they really use, it's got the bar code.