To say nothing of the fact that TSA makes up their own rules from airport to airport.

It's interesting that at some airports TSA is exceptionally nice and accommodating to crew as they go through security, and at some airports (cough CLT cough, if you don't go through the gates at the Airways end of the concourse) they can be just miserable.

Perhaps ALPA should get us all TLDs (Thermo-Luminescent Dosimeters) which monitor exposure to radiation for all flight crew (and AFA should do the same). These are the same things that medical staff who work around radioactive/nuclear medicine, as well as Navy nukes wear all the time when they are on duty. Then we can see how much total radiation we are exposed to in a year by those scanners, and sitting in our "cushy" offices in the sky.

I agree with the XJT pilot who had his issues with the TSA guys,there's no consistency within their own ranks, and he's right, we have had our "freedoms" (civil rights) abrogated because of the paranoia and fear generated by politicians who did it to stay in power. I hope he doesn't lose his job over this, and that it just becomes another "lesson learned" in the long odyssey of CrewPASS.