Fairchild Commissary to begin scanning DoD IDs Published Nov. 18, 2013 By Airman 1st Class Sam Fogleman 92nd Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. -- The Fairchild Air Force Base commissary will have new Department of Defense identification scanners Dec. 4 to ensure both eligibility to shop and to better serve customer needs in the long term. According to a Defense Commissary Agency news release from Oct. 31, the Fort Lee, Va., commissary became the first store to scan ID cards on Oct. 22, as the first part of an agency-wide rollout. "All commissaries will be performing this by mid-February," said Eric Quantock, Fairchild Commissary store director. "I will be posting notices at the register a few weeks before the rollout begins to give patrons a heads-up on this new procedure." The DeCA maintains that no sensitive personal information will be available on its computer systems via use of the ID cards. Additionally, the intention is to update the current system by monitoring shopping habits and sales figures so that commissaries remain effective in the modern retail environment. The scanners will provide data on customers' ID card number, rank, military status, branch of service, age, household size, and ZIP codes of residence and duty station. Names, addresses and phone numbers will be omitted. "The process for the customer is virtually the same," said Nancy O'Nell, DeCA public affairs officer for Pacific and West Areas. "It will be the cashier that does the scanning." Fairchild Commissary customers should hardly notice the difference under the new system. "Customers will have their ID cards scanned at the beginning of the transaction and, over time, it should just be a routine step when making a commissary purchase," Quantock said.