Originally Posted by
law dawg
Still, it's not a lot of training, and, until you've pulled the trigger for real, you don't really know if you can do it. If five guys with knives breach that door one guy with a gun is going to do some damage, but the odds are still against him unless he has incredible shot placement (CNS shots).
You are assuming the only thing pilots can do is use their firearms if they carry. Interesting but faulty assumption.
Originally Posted by
law dawg
The way I look at it, FFDOs should handle domestic flights and FAMs international. Of course, the FFDOs wouldn't like that, especially if the government started telling them where to fly if they wanted to keep their FFDO designation.
Now that merchant vessels with armed security forces on board are entering foreign ports - and the world hasn't come to an end - perhaps we can start talking about letting FFDO's carry on international flights.