Residents from five states can no longer use their licenses to get on MacDill Air Force Base or other military bases.
Today, the Department of Defense announced they will no longer accept driver's licenses from Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico and Washington as proof of identity.
In a release sent out this morning, they cited the REAL ID Act.
We have a lot of questions about the ban. Right now, our 10Investigates unit has several calls out into the Pentagon to try to figure out why theses five states -- and not Florida. The REAL ID Act grew out of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks -- most of the terrorists involved had driver's licenses from Florida and Virginia.
Those attempting to gain physical access to DoD installations must show an alternate form of identification, such as a passport, officials said. Service members, family members, DoD employees, and federal employees with the DoD common access card, DoD uniformed services identification and privileges cards, federal personal identification verification cards or transportation workers' identification credentials are not affected, officials said, as these cards are authorized in DoD policy to facilitate physical access to installations.
