"what's your function" "hookin up words and making them sound right" :D

Sorry if this was already said (didn't feel like reading through ALL the pages)... but with the Marshalls flying all day a few days a week, is it that bad to give them comfortable seats? Also, F seat are the ones closest to the cockpit... I don't know about you, but I would want the pax with the gun (active or not) guarding the door.

Can A Non Active Sky Marshall Drink Liquor On A Flight?
 

Can non-active sky marshals drink on liquor a flight while they are carrying a gun?

No, liquor cannot be served. But I am waiting for someone on here to now respond that they watched a FAM or LEO drink like a fish. :)

Since one couldn't enter the cockpit with a battering ram nowadays, I'm not too sure we need anyone guarding the door.
I see the FAM's function as monitoring the pax and, as has been said ad infinitum, they could monitor the pax better from the rear of the plane IMO.

FAMs on plane, active or not, don't readily appear to drink alcohol on the planes I've been on. Their drinking habits off the plane are not my concern except under certain circumstances, including where it affects their performance on the plane.

The FAs may provide partial assistance in the potential identification of FAMs since they don't generally offer FAMs in first class alcohol on flights. Instead of having their hands ready to pour the wine, the bottle and/or hands often go elsewhere on the cart. Amusing or not?

I don't recall anything in the question about "off-the-plane" habits. I almost don't want to ask, but oh well, I will anyway. What are you implying by off the "plane" habits? Got some stories you want to tell?

...that the Federal Air Marshals moonlight as nuns during their spare time...

Hey, thats top secret. :p

Re 1st question: What do you think I am implying?
Re 2nd question: No.

No one who is carrying a firearm can consume alcohol while flying. The FAs know who is who, and won't serve them. This rule was in force back in the 80s, when I occasionally flew while armed.

I've kicked open much heavier doors with only my foot. The reinforced flight deck doors might slow someone down more than the previous lavatory-grade doors would, but don't get any false notions that they are impenetrable.

I don't know if there's an FAA standard for the reinforced cockpit doors but the new ones on DL's aircraft would take a bit more than a well placed foot IMO.
The doors are open when the plane is at the gate and they secure them to the lav door on certain aircraft types.
if you have to use the lav, you need to swing the cockpit door with the lav door. You can feel the weight of the door and it's gotta go over a hundred pounds. Plus it appears to be over an inch thick and made out of some lead-like substance. And there's a 1" lip that overlaps the frame.
I don't want to meet anybody in a dark alley who's capable of kicking one of these doors down.

The FD doors open out towards the cabin and the reinforced door and frame would make kicking it into the FD a very very difficult endeavor. You would need to kick it through the frame...I would pay to see anyone trying that successfully in a test. Passengers and crew would have plenty of time to act and restrain the offender or just club him over the head with a fire extinguisher.

I am very confident the doors will protect the FD...and if we are to have FAMs onboard, they are there to monitor the passengers, which is best done from either the rear, or at different locations throughout the cabin - not sitting in FC.

After reading your post a couple of times and mulling it over, I don't think your implying anything. Will just say however that the original remark didnt have anything to do with "off the plane" activity. But, you are right, if off duty activity is such that it impeads on duty activity it would be a problem. (example: pilots reporting to work drunk or hungover, firemen, patrolmen, doctors or any public service, safety, or transportation employment)