imawino
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Post by imawino on Jul 9, 2013 15:20:03 GMT -5
I was talking about the above part. Not his medals. I should have bolded that part. But the part that turned into a "heated exchange" was at the capitol building - where he was asked to remove metal before going through a metal detector. The blurb is very poorly written.
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thyme4change
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Post by thyme4change on Jul 9, 2013 18:08:18 GMT -5
The problem I have is that if we just say that all decorated service men shouldn't be subject to scrutiny at airports, aren't we at risk for some crazy-ass person to go down to the surplus store and buy a uniform and maybe a few old medals, and pretend they are a decorated service man, and shouldn't be subject to scrutiny. This is the same problem I have with the lady who was humiliated when they examined her medical devices. Of course we don't want to frisk the underpants of every chemo patient, but it is just too easy to pretend to be a chemo patient. I don't think the TSA can verify service in a meaningful way. There are like a million and a half people in the military. How many different types of uniforms and medals are there. We can train them to recognize all of that.
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