as a federal agent flying all around the world and being sensitive to security issues, it never does any good to be a smart alleck to airport security folks. They do not handle that well and it will usually buy you a secondary search, sometimes even a personal interview on the other side of the airport.
not to be mean about this for i understand the need for securitry when flying and it seams that other countrys seam to do well in that area when dealing with public ..but there got to be a better way to screen people and hire smarter people to do the screening ..
for i fly a lot for my work and have run into some of the dumbest people and some of the smartest people working there at the tsa and even the smart ones who work there say the same thing about some of the dumb ones when it comes to be able to have a little more common sense when dealing with things..
i have a pin in my right and left ankles along with pins in my left leg from the military service and a few bumps in my life that came with the years of working in my life ..
when i flew a couple of times after going through the metal detector .i have set off the unit before and i explain to them about the pins ..they will ran the handwand over me and it hit on the pins .. most time i can show them the ankle areas of the feet and that is enough for them to say ok and not do a body seach ..for most people go hey that ok and say have a nice flight ..
i ran into a guy in the maimi area that had to be the village idiot for i had go with another guy and wait for the on duty medical guy to see of the scars and pins where real or not and i had to show them the leg with it surgery scars on it ..
when the on duty medical personal came into the room and i showed him the leg.. for i had to guess what this guy was for he was the one asking me the questions about the leg and how it happen
it went like this ..
broken your leg in three places on left leg how did it happen .. it was from the military from a jump that went wrong in the middle of the night training drop that we where doing and you left and right ankle and foot areas how did those happen ..
yes sir i was hit by a drunk driver in 99 ..
did it hurt bad
yes sir ..i can tell you when the weather is going to change
he was smileing at that comment and said have a nice day
yes sir..
the other guy came back to the guy and was looking at the guy like you are a dumb---- and told me to have a nice flight and i was on my way ..for the other guy was there when i did the whole why did you want a full search of this person when you could see the scars running up the leg
i ran into another guy comeing back from boston area for basically haveing two razor in my overnight carry on..i shave my head so i use a electric razor for that and a regular razor for the face.never could get that close shave with electric razor ..and the guy was asking my why the two razor when his boss came up looked at the two razor set up and told me i was free to go and explained to the young man that when you shave your head most guys use two diff razors and two diff types of shaveing cream for he was explaining to the guy that the head is a very sensitive area to shave and you use two diff shaveing products for the area..he was also a head shaver to ..
we set for a min or two talking about the diff products that we have used in shaveing of the old head ..then we said our good byes and i left for the gate area to catch my flight home....
i ran into one lady who worked at tsa and she was smart as a whip and was on the ball when flying through windy city.. she had me screen and looked over in less than 30 secs and was moveing on to the next person and she was catching all typles of things when comeing through the checkpoint ..she was on the ball and made the screening system look easly and fast ..
i ran into on the way back through the windy city where i was changeing planes to come back home ..she had ask me about my meds in less than a 1 min time frame she had gone through my bag and was asking me about the meds and what i was takeing them for ..
ran into a guy who could not understand some reason why i was keeping my diabetic meds with me at all times ..for i have to take the pill if my sugar level gets to high ..for i have the complete travel kit in my carrying on bag of the oral meds and checker and other medical supplies i need to keep myself from not getting sick when my sugar level spike after eating something ..for iam a border line diabetic if i can not control my sugar levels i will need to go on the shots as for now i can control with eating and walking a couple of hours a day ..
he was like why the diff medical items in the bag when the other tsa agent asked me a simple question and was like you need to learn the something about diabetic people for they have to have there meds and gear with them ..
the guy asked me where was my blood sugar level needs to be at all times ..i told 110 area for me i told him and he said what happens at the level of 300 and above ..i told you go into a coma and you could die .. he goes have a nice day and i was free to go ..
the whole thing is there is a way to screen passage a lot better ..
do like the U.S Marshell service does with con air .the passages are screen before they are getting on the plane and then moved in a safe way ..there is better ways to deal with the threat ..along with the personal should be held to a higher standard than they are held to now..
or do like the Israel serucity personal do at the air port ..but the tsa needs to go for they are really agency that needs to hire better people or have a better training program than they have ..
i seen better screneing at a federal courthouse than at the airport
