Originally Posted by
law dawg
Well, the tactics are Delta Force tactics, and they're the ones who set up the drill, so I personally take that as gold.
I'm not questioning the tactics per se as I know Deltas know what they're doing. I guess I'm just skeptical of any organization that puts out their own studies/benchmarks/etc and claims they're the absolute truth. It's fine that they run tests and make a claim. I just like to see some outside verification of those claims.
Indeed. But as a FLEO I know who it is that demands me preboard, and that is the pilot.
I don't doubt that. The question comes where is that decision made. The captain blames the airline, the airline blames the TSA, TSA blames the airline ...
I'm not sure how they compute it. But by risk I don't think its economic as much as likelihood, but I may be wrong on this. As far as many high risks not having FAMs, I think that is more a manpower issue than anything else.
I can generally understand flights going out of DCA as that's just across the river from downtown DC. I haven't seen the same thing in fights out of BWI and IAD considering they're not that far off either. Especially with all the heavies going out of IAD.
Interesting. I would have liked to attend that. My experience and education says that moving dramatically increases your life expectancy.
It was a very interesting class, primarily geared towards assignments going to hostile areas but it was good to know for any sort of traveler really. I liked taking them as they also showed me how the "game" was played from multiple facets.
I'm a gamer too, but not online so much. The ten year old kids whipping me is hell on my therapy bill.
lol I hear ya. I play an online RPG (Final Fantasy XI) that really doesn't have much player vs. player, so I don't have to worry about getting beat by the young whipper snappers. They're on my team.
Absolutely. If you can't agree on the first principle then the rest is irrelevant. Take, for instance, Texas Dawg. He is opposed to any type of screening unless the business wants it. So everything else is mute. Other people will say that screening is a good idea, then get hung up on the best way to do it (TSA vs. private, weapons vs. bombs, etc.).
I think you'll find people here be largely against the FAM program, but for screening. A lot of it's just the implementation that sucks.
I'd disagree with this. A lot of them have risked their careers to highlight security issues and effect change, particularly in the FAMS.
Well, you always have the "whistle blowers", but I think the higher up you go into the more specialized areas such as FAMs, you'll see more career minded people who are willing to take it more seriously and put more on the line. However, to the average airport screener, it's just a job or a way to get thru college.
What I don't like seeing is where TSA focuses on canning the whistle blower (such as Mark "Baghdad Bob" Hatfield wanting to can the person who released the 90% failure rate at EWR) rather than actually fixing the problems.