New Army MWR ID requirements are here to stay

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New Army MWR ID requirements are here to stay
By Kent Harris, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, March 1, 2009

If you’re planning to use an Army Morale, Welfare and Recreation facility around Europe in the future, you’re going to have to provide some personal information.

Such information is put into the RecTrac system and is primarily used to track usage of MWR facilities, according to Melanie Reagin, functional administer for Installation Management Command-Europe Morale, Welfare and Recreation.

The system has been in use at some Army posts in Europe since 1999, she said. But its recent introduction at other sites has elicited concern about why the information — including the sponsor’s Social Security number — is needed and how it will be used.

"It is a big change and we know that customers do get upset," Reagin said of the new requirements for some communities.

Personnel at Heidelberg, Stuttgart, Bamberg, Baumholder and Garmisch in Germany, and in the Benelux will probably be seeing the most change. But various facilities at other installations that haven’t been using RecTrac will also be doing so, she said.


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