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Aug 30, 2006 | 4:50 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bearstew72

The reason we (FA's) are allowed to bring water on board is because we have gone thru a 10 year background check as well as having had our fingerprints sent to the FBI for screening and validation which takes about 30 days to complete....how many passengers can say they have gone thru that prior to their net flight? :-)

And the TSA occifers are verifying that the ID's are real and/or it's actually your ID? GMAB. But I am not supposed to digress...