[SteveR]

There's a loophole in the DoD regs for car inspections. Several of the people I worked with figured it out and used it to their advantage. Technically, the rule is that you have two addresses, your duty station, and your 'home' address. If your home address is in a different state than your duty station and you register your cars to that address and you are stationed in a different state, then the reg says that you are not required to inspect the car for the state you are stationed in, and since you are stationed in a state that is not your registered home state, then the MPs/SPs/DoD Police cannot enforce any action requiring you to have, or renew your car inspection as it would be a 'financial hardship' to have to drive each of your cars out of state to get them inspected. One guy on McGuire had a Camaro and removed all the EGR stuff, AIR, cats, etc. and since he was from Arizona, they couldn't make him drive the car there to get it inspected. Another guy had a vette and did the same, and he was from Philly. Even though Philly is only 45 minutes from McGuire, it's still out of state and they couldn't make him drive there to get it inspected as it was still technically out of state. This loophole works if you are constantly stationed out of state, and being that there are no active duty Army bases in NJ, you're good. However, whenever you drive your cars in NJ, you are liable if you get pulled over. The loophole only applies to base security hassling you and being able to get away with it out of state. Most of the MPs/SPs/DoD Police don't understand this rule and need it to be shown to them, as my friend from Philly had to do. I'm not sure if they changed the rule or not, but this is how it was three years ago.