Seriously. Why do you check in outside security? That’s not required when in uniform. Make life easy. Enter airport. Straight to precheck or employee line. Whichever is shorter. Also, be cordial to TSA agents. Develop a good working relationship with the ones you see most often. Learn their names and remember them. Treat them like human beings that are just doing their jobs. Do this for a year or so and life gets easier. I also commute from a smaller airport. Not hooterville. But not a class bravo either.