N965VJ

Air Marshal and Careers in Transportation Security

Description: After the tragic events of 9/11, the security of our nation�s transportation systems became more necessary than ever. From screeners and inspectors to the air marshals keeping watch in the sky, thousands of men and women face unique challenges every day. Author Janet Souter goes inside the Transportation Security Administration and the Federal Air Marshal Service to explain their responsibilities, what careers they offer, and how they keep passengers safe from harm.


I hope this is required reading as well (or maybe not, judging by the poor quality of the cover artwork):

A Look at the Fourth Amendment
Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures



Description: What constitutes probable cause? Does the Patriot Act violate the Fourth Amendment? These are just a couple of the many questions author Doreen Gonzales explores as she explains how the Fourth Amendment came to exist, why it is important, ways in which it has been challenged in the U.S. federal courts, and how it relates to today's issues of national security and ever-developing technology.



Easy- next time you're in IAD order a pizza, then call the number advertised on the box to work as a screener.

exbayern

I spelz gud.

Wally Bird

Bite your tongue ! The checkpoint workers are Front Line Warriors; some have said so right here.

Darkumbra

Words fail me. Almost.

If this is real, and I'm having great difficulty believing that it is, then I would have been demanding to speak to the supervisor and demanding that the kids be removed from the sterile area. Reason? Too many to list, but for starters? Violation of privacy.

There is no way I would hand a child any Id, not even my BP, not even in a bizarro game of pretend. What's next? Bring your kid to work when executing a prisoner?

Having non-TSA involved in ANY aspect of TSA activities must violate SOP at so many levels that my mind boggles that there is ANYONE in TSA who would think this was a 'good' idea.

If this is true, i can't bring myself to believe it is, then I think that the TSA is singlehandedly lowering the worldwide IQ by at least 5 pts all on their own.

SFOSpiff

And so how is TSOs being forced to speak one's name or DOB out loud at SFO not a violation of this policy? Or is it not a violation because "the website is always out of date"?

jtodd

I'll bet before the shift started all of the tsa personnel were taking turns feeling up each others kids for practice.

FriendlySkies

There is photographic evidence. Why do you not believe that it happened?

TSO1973

FWIW, this was probably a local decision by the FSD to allow this, and a bad one at that. This, from what I can tell, certainly wasn't a nationally sanctioned thing. The question about this came up, albeit jokingly about participating in this, at my airport. The answer was not just no, but absolutely not.

TSO1973

So are you suggesting that a TSO is not a good parent?

Darkumbra

It's that I literally find it easier to disbelieve the evidence, than believe that anyone could be so incredibly stupid as to allow kids to be part of the security process screening citizens. AND that anyone would allow a child to participate in the violation of their civil rights.

I am honestly dumbfounded by this. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot keeps cycling through my head as I think of this.

Flaflyer

bolding mine

OMG did you just invent the wrong thing. Many outfits save money by asking for volunteers. Then there are the volunteer units like the Civil Air Patrol. And of course real police and sheriff units have civilian auxiliaries, with trained but unpaid volunteers

Since TSA wants to become the Homeland Police Force, why not a TSO Volunteer Auxiliary Screeners Service? We know the training to become a TSO is minimal, so cost will be very minimal. These kids with blue gloves prove how simple the job is.

Auxiliary Screeners can be any patriotic American who wants to help in the War on Terror. Think of the thousands who will work for free: priests, dudes who enjoy rummaging through other people�s underwear, shoe freaks of all types, pickpockets, the list is endless.

FriendlySkies

A very bad decision. I do hope the OP sends in a complaint, and this is investigated. This is what happened after the guy brought his son to work in the ATC tower.

Depending on their actions at the checkpoint, I do have to wonder what they are like at home. So many of the clerks retaliate against pax that are just trying to keep an eye on their belongings, ask for clean gloves, threaten to have them arrested, etc. What makes you think they don't act that way at home?

Oy! I better wash out my mouth before eyecue or his non-FARE friends report it to Aunt Nappy for consideration!

oboshoe

We see what TSO's do to strangers children for a few bucks an hour.

Some have been arrested for what they do to children in their off hours.


Considering how TSO's behave in public, its natural to believe that they behave even more so in private.

N965VJ

Don't forget to buy your gear and ID badges!



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I was in the court that thought that incident, while in poor judgment in this era of live internet ATC feeds, was not that big of a deal. When I was little kid, a controller let me change the intensity of the runway lights on a tower visit one time. Never got to talk on the radio from the tower, but I did when in a GA aircraft plenty of times.

I guess my whole point here in starting this thread is that in spite of all the chest-thumping by the TSA, the checkpoint is not the Front Line of the War On Terror™ they like to pretend it is.

N830MH

Doesn't matter. Lets TSA is doing their jobs and you can't be bugging with the children at airport. They are allowed it to brings the children to works days. I remember last time that I saw the children who came to works at airport for every year. They are responsible to supervised with an adult. They are always be respected with the passengers & the crews, too.