Originally Posted by
Boggie Dog
I think the real question is how many people does TSA mandate to operate one screening lane.
You would have a TDC (who could cover for more than one lane), usually a person near the line where people place items on the xray feed table, one at the input side of the WBI (often blocking the WTMD), two (one male, one female) on the output side of the WBI, xray operator, at least one to hand search bags, and 3 or 4 STSO/LTSO's standing around watching nothing in particular.
So I'm gong to take a SWAG of about 10 screeners to man a single checkpoint lane. I didn't allow any windage for useless BDO's.
Somewhere floating around are at least two dedicated, specially trained screeners who only handle opt-outs, both voluntary and involuntary medical.
Oddly enough, if you walk into the scanner, can't assume and hold the position and completely botch the scan, the 'anomaly resolver' is then qualified to test your resistance and see what's in your pants.