Re-credentialization

My credentials to work on the air force base expire next Monday, and I just yesterday got the paperwork done to re-up my badges. Oh how I wish the process didn't take a whole morning to complete. It's amazing how inefficient the process is. Go to this place, wait in line, have them sign, go to another place, wait in line, have them sign, go back to the place you were just at, wait in line... sheesh. It's only funny because the badge is so "high-tech". Digital certificates, 2-D bar codes, holographic watermarks, memory chips, PIN codes, magnetic strips, none of this to mention the supporting infrastructure of various types of servers and card readers and software/middleware. Putting the two things (the card/infrastructure and the process to get one) side-by-side is the laughable part. Surely it could be easier. Better.