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Old Nov 12, 2013 | 2:03 am
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Bearcat06
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Originally Posted by TheRoadie
DHS runs the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, for 89 US government agencies, and some state, local, tribal, campus, and international agencies.

http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/gao-..._training.html

DHS course length for Uniformed Police is 14 weeks. Air Marshal = 13 weeks. Basic firearms training = 6 weeks.

No way the agency is going to invest this amount of $$ for training folks recruited via pizza boxes with swiss cheese holes in their background checks.
As posted by me in this thread....after 9-11 when the TSA/DHS was being formed. they looked at "TSA Police Officers" to stand the checkpoints.

As you've clearly stated above, there is no way they can afford to do it......and that's what they found out last time around......
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