Expedited airport screening for military in the works

[alp227]

Source: CNN

U.S military personnel may someday be treated to expedited screening at airport checkpoints if all goes well with tests that begin Tuesday at a medium-size airport in California.

The program was announced by Transportation Security Administration head John Pistole.

He said the agency is conducting the tests to see if its technology is compatible with the Common Access Cards that are carried by military personnel.

"As part of our risk-based security initiative, we're trying to identify those groups of people that in all likelihood pose no risk. We've been working with the military Department of Defense to try to assess how we can read the military ID cards," Pistole said.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/15/travel/military-airport-screening/index.html

[Maine_Nurse]

1. I have to admit...

seeing troops carrying bayonets, shotguns, pistols, assault rifles, and light machine guns going through a security checkpoint to find weapons is kinda comical.

[Deb]

2. About freaking time

My son, in military uniform, was asked to remove his walking cast and limp his way through the detector on healing bones. :grr:

[webDude]

3. Yeah! No one in the military would be involved in black ops!!

[southshore]

4. MAJ Nidal Malik Hasan

Yeah, it's not like a field grade officer would shoot up a bunch of folks to promote a terrorist agenda. Uh, er, um, wait a second.......

[COLGATE4]

6. And the existing scanning protocol in US airports would have

detected/stopped him how???

[Nihil]

5. It obviously got too embarrassing when they kept catching soldiers with stolen explosives ...

In other words: don't fix the problem, just stop looking.

:patriot: :eyes:

[Blue_Tires]

7. once again, the TSA completely misses the point

there should be ONE guideline for all passengers...no one will want to be in the 'grope' line when they see the 'you seem like an OK type of guy' line