Originally Posted by
alanR
How do you verify those orders or other official documentation are real?
They shine a black light on it, don't they?
What they're creating is a setup for a TDC accusing an active serviceman/woman of buying their uniform at a surplus store and forging their documents. Just watch them turn a procedure meant to improve things for the military turn into a way to humiliate them further.
But fundamentally, I agree that this is simply another divide-and-conquer technique. Stop hassling pilots and flight crew, and they stop complaining. Stop hassling (some) FF elites and they stop complaining. This is more of the same. As N965VJ said, everyone should go through the same (sensible) screening.