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Old Dec 20, 2010 | 1:51 am
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Originally Posted by SnallaBolaget
When I was still working in airport security (long ago now, and before all the craziness) we once screened 1.500 soldiers coming from an exercise, going from military to civilian aircraft / airport with nothing but rubber gloves, wands and a carry-on x-ray machine. It didn't take all that long either, and none of them got even a knife through. More important, none of them felt agitated, invaded, pissed off, miffed or abused after their screening.
How do you know none of them got any contraband -- even a knife -- to pass the screeners undetected?
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