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[MADem]

29. They do--it was a scheme to get wealthy, well-behaved patrons into MWR facilities.

Jill was one of EIGHT HUNDRED civilians granted access.

The generals wanted to keep their two golf courses, so the colonel in charge of the base (the host command, as you will) ginned up a scheme and invited a select group of polite, well-off and well-connected locals to help fill the MWR coffers. They could also join the O club at a seventeen buck a month surcharge.

MWR facilities, if they do not make money to sustain themselves, are required to close. Congress no longer subsidizes them, they haven't for many years, so they have to find ways to stay open.

The backstory: http://www.tampabay.com/news/military/macdill/article1261501.ece

The ID first issued to Jill Kelley in November 2010 was revoked on Tuesday pending a Pentagon investigation...The ID is one of about 800 issued by MacDill's 6th Air Mobility Wing in a program called Friends of MacDill, which allows select civilians who pass a background check to visit MacDill without being accompanied by someone with a military ID.

The wing serves as something akin to a landlord for other commands at the base, including U.S. Central Command. Petraeus was CentCom's chief from 2008 to 2010. The wing is in charge of base security, and its armed personnel stand watch at MacDill's entry gates.

The program was launched in late 2010 by Col. Lenny Richoux, former wing commander who now serves in Europe.

Kelley obtained the ID four months after Petraeus left CentCom in June 2010 to take command of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. His deputy commander, Marine Gen. John Allen, served as CentCom's acting chief for six weeks after Petraeus' departure.

Kelley's pass was renewed in February 2012.