Originally Posted by
businessclass
http://www.tsa.gov/approach/tech/castscope.shtm
... CastScope deployment to airports will be based on the airport’s proximity to
military hospitals or large rehabilitation facilities that serve amputees, sports events for disability groups, vacation destinations utilized by amputees and in
airports that see large volumes of military severely injured.
The airports selected for the technology are San Antonio, Denver, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Washington-Dulles, Reagan National, Orlando, John. F. Kennedy, Los Angeles, Baltimore-Washington, and Phoenix. Among them they will receive 34 CastScope machines.
I am not often left speechless and totally flabbergasted, but this information makes my blood boil. These x-ray machines are making specific
targets of severely injured military members, most of whom owe their injuries to serving our nation. It makes me want to tear my hair out.
These military members, with casts, braces, bandaged areas where their arms and legs
used to be, etc. have no doubt already been x-rayed too many times in the course of their diagnosis and treatments. Now they're going to airports where untrained, uncertified people will be exposing them to x-ray machines that have no maintenance schedules????
Where is the press, why aren't they leaping all over this story? The VFW and other veterans' organizations should be all over this! Where, exactly, does this fit in with TSA's own "Military Severely Injured Program?" There is a whole page on TSA's website about assuring respect and dignity for injured military. This is how the injured are respected - by forcing them to submit to x-rays at airports?