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Originally Posted by Txjake
I don't think the veteran in question wanted a free pass throough security. It was the crude way that TSA and the other security folk treated him because of his handicap....
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All it took was a few minutes of research on his part to get preferential treatment which is what I keep saying.
for one, everyone has to remove their jackets and go though a metal detector or scanner. Injured servicemen can actually be excused some of these requirements if they give advance notice.
"Concurrent with that incident, TSA announced it had changed its rules to eliminate a requirement that injured troops remove their shoes, jackets or hats. But to receive the expedited service, TSA asks affected personnel to call the agency’s Military Severely Injured Joint Service Operations Center before traveling.
TSA also offers escorted “curb-to-gate service” for injured or ill personnel who request it as well as the TSA Pre program to service members with a military common access card at four airports: Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, and Washington Dulles International Airport."
this whole thing is overblown hype. as the article states-
"At the airport, bystanders stared as the TSA security screener looked under Kemnitz’s medals, ran his hands under the Marine’s waistband and swabbed his shoes for explosives.
“What does a uniform and heroism represent if our own citizens — in this case employees of the TSA and security personnel — have no regard for them?” wrote Kemnitz’s escort, Patricia Martin, to Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki following the incidents."
What I gather is he took no advantage of any of the preferential treatment rules under the TSA for veterans and especially wounded veterans, going through the standard security screening, and subsequently having to be searched because the TSA must check him and because of his injury preventing the usual scanner use.
While I appreciate his predicament, what assurance does any security officer have that he was actually injured? for all they know he could not raise his arm because of the C4 jammed in his armpit in his rented marine uniform.