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Jul 17, 2011 | 7:58 pm

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InkUnderNails

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Quote:

Originally Posted by HSVTSO Dean

So, if we're still talking about the chain of command from bottom to top, it begins now to look something like...

TSO - "1-striper"
LTSO - "2-striper"
STSO - "3-striper"
TSM
AFSD-S
FSD
R-FSD

For any typical trip through the checkpoint, however, you're likely only to encounter the bottom three rungs of this ladder. The TSO, the LTSO, and the STSO... and, with as much scut work as most STSOs are given to do, only probably going to be the TSO and LTSO.

Whew. Get all that?

Thanks!

I guess my last trip was not typical. It took the TSM to approve my NEXUS.

Why can they not get this very simple task right?

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