<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Spiff:
You're definitely not under-staffed. You're over-directed. You have people uselessly harassing people at the gates. Every one of them can be let go. You have people randomly screening people at the checkpoints. Fire them too. You have people opening checked luggage because your machines can't tell chocolate from C-4. They can hit the road. You can also lose a few people due to the the Great Pointy Object Search for non-credible threats. Time to smarten up and slim down. You have more than one ID check - time to can the extra ID checkers. In fact, you can pass that job off to the airlines. The ID check provides revenue protection for them and zero security.
Your staffing problems and my tax/ticketing fee problems have just been solved.
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I had the opportunity to blow some things up with C4 and it was kewl. Claymores work better though. Anyways, C-4 and Hersheys in certain thickness can look the same on an xray as I was told by an Army EOD guy who was in our class.