FW: [IP] yet-another INCREDIBLY-stupid airport "security" story

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From: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Date: Wednesday, Jul 20, 2005 7:54 pm
Subject: [IP] yet-another INCREDIBLY-stupid airport "security" story

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From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>
Date: July 20, 2005 4:26:42 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: fwd: yet-another INCREDIBLY-stupid airport "security" story

Just received this from a friend. If true, it's ... well ... [what words???]

--jim

> This was taken from today's issue of an email newsletter published
by the AirFinance Journal. Gotta love it.

> And finally
Before deploying from Savannah, Georgia, to Iraq by a chartered
airliner; the troops of the 48th Brigade Combat Team, a National
Guard unit, had to go through the same security checks as any other
passengers.

> Lt. Col. John King, the unit's commander, told his 280 fellow
soldiers that FAA anti-hijacking regulations require passengers to
surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and cigarette lighters.
"If you have any of those things," he said, almost apologetically,
"put them in this box now."

> The troops were, however, allowed to keep their assault rifles,
body armour, helmets, pistols, bayonets and combat shotguns.

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