yet-another INCREDIBLY-stupid airport "security" story

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com>
Date: July 20, 2005 4:26:42 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: fwd: yet-another INCREDIBLY-stupid airport "security" story


Just received this from a friend.  If true, it's ... well ... [what  
words???]

--jim



> This was taken from today's issue of an email newsletter published  
> by the AirFinance Journal. Gotta love it.
>
> And finally
> Before deploying from Savannah, Georgia, to Iraq by a chartered  
> airliner; the troops of the 48th Brigade Combat Team, a National  
> Guard unit, had to go through the same security checks as any other  
> passengers.
>
> Lt. Col. John King, the unit's commander, told his 280 fellow  
> soldiers that FAA anti-hijacking regulations require passengers to  
> surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and cigarette lighters.  
> "If you have any of those things," he said, almost apologetically,  
> "put them in this box now."
>
> The troops were, however, allowed to keep their assault rifles,  
> body armour, helmets, pistols, bayonets and combat shotguns.


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