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from AR 600-8-14/AIR FORCE INSTRUCTION 36-3026(I) 3.1. Sponsor Responsibilities: 3.1.1. Active, Retired, Guard, and Reserve sponsors should advise the nearest uniformed service issuing activity about any changes to dependent data that affect eligibility to a DD Form 1173 or DD Form 1173-1. 3.1.2. Provide documentation to update the DEERS for dependents no longer entitled to benefits and privileges (for example, final divorce decree, child’s marriage certificate, etc.). 3.1.3. Retrieve ID cards from dependents no longer eligible and surrender the cards to the nearest ID card issuing activity. Section 4A—General Procedures for Retrieving and Replacing ID Cards 4.1. General Procedures. Take the following measures when you learn that an individual is no longer entitled to an ID card: 4.1.1. Terminate eligibility in the DEERS through on-line system or send a floppy disk to the DEPC (paragraph 5.6.). 4.1.2. Recover the card after notifying the sponsor or the unit commander. 4.1.3. Destroy the DD Form 1172 or if the DD Form 1172 has more than one name, note the date of retrieval once you recover the DD Form 1173. 4.1.4. If letters from the sponsor, member’s commander, or issuing activity fail to retrieve the card, report the circumstances by letter or message to the appropriate installation security authority of the military installation nearest the unauthorized cardholder’s address if unable to retrieve voluntarily. 4.1.4.1. Provide name of unauthorized card holder, description, date of birth, card expiration date, last known address, reason why the individual is no longer entitled to the card, sponsor’s name, grade, branch of service, organization, and last known address. 4.1.4.2. Send a copy of letter or message to all benefits and privileges facilities on that base. 4.1.4.3. File the DD Form 1172 along with retrieval documentation in the unit office files. 4.1.4.4. Destroy the DD Form 1172 and documentation 1 year after card expires. You do not have to deal with him, you can turn it in at the gate when the divorce is final. If you keep it, then it escalates. |