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yet-another INCREDIBLY-stupid airport "security" story
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:54:34 -0400
Begin forwarded message: 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" storyJust 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 finallyBefore 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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