I was considering posting this a earlier this week... well here it goes.
Last week or so, I was sent over to our US Airways Shuttle checkpoint. I don't mind going there aside from the fact, the ancient Rapiscans don't take my logon info. (For some reason, only Terminal B South @ BOS has Rapiscans, everywhere else in the airport has Heimanns)
Anyways, towards the end of my shift, I'm just doing TDC. There's a bit of a line buliding up in Causual Traveler.
Just finished checking an Air Force Major's CAC card when a guy in a ACU (the new Army combat uniform).
He walks right behind me (TDC setup is kinda weird)
I say "Hey man, I gotta check your ID." He's like OK, shows me his CAC card, he's a Sergeant First Class in the 88th Airborne. I go back to checking IDs for supposed signs of tewwyism!!!
Until... the Army sarge turns around and says now what do I got to do? I want special treatment I'm military! I tell him you do to get special treatment. You can keep your boots, but your jacket and backpack need to come off.
(All military personnel in uniform can keep their shoes/boots and get deselected from selectee status if they're carrying their valid orders with them.)
Of course, this doesn't seem to apply to him still, and I go back to checking tickets for one second, when he says he wants a supervisor. So I start shouting down to the other end of the checkpoint for one, and go back... again... to checking IDs.
I ignored him for the most part but I guess he attempted to walk through the metal detector with his pack on.
At one point, he turned to the AF major, (who's in dress uniform) and says to him:
Hey major!? Why are you standing in line, don't you get special treatment too?
The major responds to that the way we're doing it is the way things are done around here.
Eventually, the guy gets inside and spends about 15-20 minutes chatting it up with a State Trooper who had been called there some other incident.
All in all, it turned out the Sargent was really drunk. My nose was stuffed up at the time so I didn't notice, but another screen talked to him and the moment the sarge opened his mouth he could smell it off his breath.