It happened to me today at LAX. I showed my TSA crew ID and the lady gave me the hugest WTFF kind of look as if I just handed her a ZULU nation passport. I told her it's a regional airline out EAST. She admitted she was new and had to check with her associate who had this look like she had made the worst mistake of her life by becoming a TSA agent. She still was combatant and told me that I can't pass security with just a company I.D in plain clothes. I proceeded to tell her that I have been jumpseating for over 8 months and also through the same exact terminal countless times the same way. They eyeballed me a few seconds and to my surprise, they let me go which made me wonder if they even had the slightest idea of what they were doing. In the few days of TSA ground school don't they tell the agents that pilots have to pass a 10 year background and that we are the last defense against aviation terrorism?????

By the way have you noticed there are only two types of TSA checkpoints? The one where the agents are scruitinising everyone down to the grandma and the one where the agents are BSing around, shooting the breeze. They're really standardized.