Originally Posted by
cestmoi123
After Oklahoma City and Fort Hood, you could make a statistical case that active and retired military are MORE likely to commit acts of terrorism than the population as a whole.
There is more to it than that: the guy who was recently caught with a small amount of explosives in his luggage. And at SAT, we had 2 people bring a fake IED into a checkpoint, thinking it would be funny. And many more incidents of current and former military than that doing things at airports they shouldn't...
But as I have said, current military in uniform with proper ID are screened less intrusively.