Originally Posted by
fatmike69
You have got to be kidding me. If a terrorist somehow succeeds in getting a crew badge and through security, AND into the flight deck, the battle is lost my friend, whether they went through security or not. Working flight crew should not have to go through security, period. Crewpass will not come a moment too soon, if it ever arrives.
Also, most TSA reps I have dealt with have been both arrogant and disrespectful. One gal in particular was giving an extremely hard to time to a very elderly man who obviously didn't know the rules very well, and was publicly and loudly humiliating him. I told her to take it easy, and you should have heard the barrage of verbal abuse I took after that. Very discourteous and unprofessional. All the other TSA agents standing around seemed to find the circus quite amusing, and one commented to me as I walked through "see if you talk back to us again".
And so, because one or manybe ten Screeners have been rude to passengers, you lump ALL screeners in the same category. Well, if thats the case then should I lump all airline pilots in the samecategory based on comments I read here? If I did that,I would never want to work in the field of aviation. But of course I love it too much to let others determine my happiness.
Screeners are not detectives. they dont have the time to sit and figure how who is a terorist and who is not, They have intructiions to do a job and they do it.
When I was a platoon Leader in Bosnia I gave my soldiers instructions and they carried them out. I didnt have time to explian every intricuit detail of my instructions, I didnt expect them to be scholars on the art of war. I expected them to be tactically proficient and to do their jobs. Same with screeners. They arent thinking "well, this guy has a SIDA badge, so they couldnt possibly be a bad guy" They arent thinking like that. They are grunts, they just know to screen people tht come through the line. ASimple thinking? Probably, but thats not neccessarily a bad thing. we need workers on the line. not scholors.