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Old Nov 12, 2009 | 4:39 pm
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Originally Posted by ElPasoPilot
......Oh. And another training slam, too.

"One other interesting tidbit is that she was selected for the BDO program as an existing TSA agent--she has no college degree, psychology courses, or other special training beyond the fairly short course the TSA offered to her in order to become certified as a BDO (and it really is a *certification*--she has her BDO certificate with seal and all hanging in her home office). I really do wonder how effective this training, and their observations, can be.
in the army they were called 90 days wonders but for the tsa, it's more like 2 week blunders <sheesh>
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