He, He - LOL - a terminal dump is simply DUMB (that's what happened when you are banging away on a tablet, typo/slip/whatever ....)

I'm glad over this holiday, we are NOT flying and dealing with this nonsense security theater.

With the billions in federal funding spend on intelligence & anti-terrorism effort, spending our young girls & boys abroad to look for WMD in the justification for the wars, I see the rational justifications for doing a full scale evacauation - in the face of a CONSPIRACY theory involving possibility 2 or more "suspected" terrorists that our government fully trained in boot camp and overseas expertly ( = active military ) Nevermind, there's no hint of intelligence failure, just like the 9/11 days - we "thank god" that our blue shirts with a badge performed their duties as expected on the frontline and caught it (on old fashion x-ray equipment) - without using any advanced imaging technologies.

Of course, BDO woud've probably waive them onward with a smile, maybe even a courtesy salute to thank this military personnell for his hardship tour of duty - and, yeah, gate agents often upgrade them up to J or F and they are often among the first to board (ahead of many with "elite" status)

To play it safe, with the possibility of multiple "suspected" idiots involved flying & conspired to plot, we would need to ground planes in the air, scramble NORAD and do at least terminal evacuations and re-screening of all passengers for the entire region, and not just a single airport ???