<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by HKG_Flyer1:
Although I haven't ignored a call for a searcg, I actually volunteered the other day. Pax load was extremely light and I was boarding at an intermediate stop along w/ only 2 other pax.
Gate agent said that someone had to be screened, so I volunteered since I didn't have much stuff and already knew the drill.
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The act of volunteering to be searched itself seems suspicious. Imagine a pair of terroists, one who is clean, ties up security by volunteering to be searched while the other with weapons or whatever goes by.
About saluting ....many many years ago as an enlisted man in the US Army, I recall not saluting while standing, cap off, in a roofed bus stop, hearing a newly minted officer pass by and comment to his companion, hey wasn't he supposed to salute us. I was prepared to say my not saluting was per protocol.