True. We now habitually ask if we'll need our boarding passes again because of the variation. An unexpected demand can present a problem because it's not uncommon for one member of a couple or larger party to carry all of the boarding passes.

For another minor example, some screeners want the shoes in a basket, while others have told us not to put the shoes in a basket.

We're comfortable in SEA, as hockeyguy is in DEN, but we've experienced problems in the lineup in DEN once, and hockeyguy might have the same in SEA, simply because of the inconsistency.

It must be that much more annoying for folks who fly infrequently, or, since they hardly ever go through it, not. ;)

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Of course, one of us is a trained intelligence interrogator with experience in assessing human behavior,

OMG! :o

We agree! One of us certainly is - but it's me!

United States Army, John F Kennedy Special Warfare Center, Fort Bragg North Carolina. Psychological Operations Officer Course (3A-SI5E). Graduated on 18 MAY 1990.

ROTFLMAO - I'm not sure how much egg you can get off your face right now, but have at it, mister "trained intelligence interrogator with experience in assessing human behavior". And you talk about other people making assumptions? Good lord!

Dave Robertson
Major, Infantry
US Army, retired

Love it - thank you!!!! Made my day.

FBI profiler Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs offers up that lovely old quotation that starts, "When you assume..." ;)

Major, it is my understanding that Bart has the same rank as you do and was not in the Infantry but rather in AIS.

I think that might leave you doing the egg-wiping.

Oh boy! A pissing match is coming!

*gets popcorn*

Oh boy! A pissing match is coming!

Not that I'll be a part of. I've had my say - here and in a PM to Bart. I'm done.

If that's what you're looking for, except this soldier's only a captain:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0320062tank1.html

Oh my gosh. What an idiot.

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:rolleyes:

WhirledTraveler, I am a little bit familiar with what Bart went through -- although I was a lowly enlisted man in AIS and the training I had paled in comparison to his.

I have also seen people with his MOS at work and, yes, they do know what they are doing. After LEX-LGA Commuter cited his own training and questioned Bart's I think he had every right to let us know his background.

That's twice you've mentioned AIS, and I will go ahead and admit my ignorance. Do you mean the ASA by any chance? I would certainly assume that you are not referring to the Army's automated information systems. ;)

And I was also once a "lowly enlisted man", draftee actually, with a BPED of 16JUN71. Won the lottery big time with a 103. Went to USACSEWS at Ft Huachuca as an EW specialist. 26M20.

As to "looking down" on people, I look down on no one who is working in any capacity, period. However Bart, I will go on the record right now as stating that the TSA has done a terrible job in eliminating the "bully factor" within its employee base. There are simply far too many instances of it documented here almsot daily for it not to be true! It is clear to me that you (collective you) have often given the wrong people more power and authority than they have ever had in their lives, and it goes right to their heads. As a graduate of several courses at Fort Benning, some of these people greatly remind me of the stereotypical Southern cop. "You in a heap of trouble there boy!"

So, we're just going to have to continue to disagree I suppose.

I thought ASA became AIS/INSCOM in the late 1970s or so. But that's not my cup of tea so this could be way out there.