Originally Posted by VideoPaul

Bob,

Thank you for being a part of this country's defense through the beloved Corps. You did a job few want to do. Welcome to FT!

I have noticed, especially in the last two years or so, some improvement in the average competence (not to mention basic manguage skills) of the TSO's as a whole. When the TSA first started it was the largest assemblage of the hard-core unemployable and gum-cracking, barely literate flotsam that I had ever seen. I usually hear TSO's cracking their gum and complaining about how unfair their schedules are and whining about how long it is until thier next break once a trip, it used to be every time I passed through a check point, so a 75% reduction in that by my entirely unscientific observation.

You are entirely correct that former military and law enforcement is exactly what the TSA needs. We're not at the low point of the TSA where the answer to a question I asked one of the Phi-beta-kappa members at EWR terminal "A" was "I not dem, dey nah me!" but there is still so much of the original talent, combined with generally incompetent leadership, that the TSA definitely has a long way to go.

--Paul