Originally Posted by
cardiomd
EXACTLY. It is also the reason you *don't* want to give military a "free pass" for much of security, at least deter the curious from taking home the pound or two of explosive on the plane. If you can bypass swabs and much of security, this is a bad demographic to loophole. Congress and government security initiatives, in this context, makes little sense in their laws / emphasis.
It's a security issue for the military, it's not a threat to the plane. TSA shouldn't be used as a means of avoiding the Fourth.