Originally Posted by
MAMOHT
I based my question on the remark by the TSO during the RPD. He told me that if I alerted the machine again the I would not be able to fly that day. Either he was not aware of the complexity of the procedure or he actually was and was willing to go through that.
Snarky comments about TSA and its Officers aren't of practical value to OP, who has an ongoing and serious issue.
Given that his issue does not appear to be frequent among the traveling public, it is most likely something localized having to do with items he travels with (whether luggage, contents or clothes worn) are alerting as potential explosives.
How and where one stores luggage and certain lotions, particularly near gardening supplies (fertilizer) and where one generally walks (past a construction site with blasting anytime in recent memory?)
The best thing for OP to do is to think through thoroughly what the problem could be and eliminating it.
Yes, until the alarm is cleared, TSA isn't clearing OP. There's no determination of "guilt" made by TSA and there's no determination that an individual is a terrorist. All that is determined is that there is a physical object tiggering an alert. TSA doesn't make the decision as to what that means. All it does is make the determination that the pax can't enter the sterile area.