Last month at Seattle-Tacoma airport, an honor guard of Fort Lewis soldiers was escorting a fallen colleague back to his family in Virginia.
After a ceremony on the tarmac, the soldiers went into the terminal to board the plane, presented their ID, and walked through the metal detectors, which were set off by their combat ribbons and medals.
What to do, if you’re the Transportation Security Administration screener on duty?
What this inept and insensitive idiot did is unbelievable.
The two soldiers were told to put down the American flag they were carrying - the flag that had draped the fallen soldier's coffin.
The TSA screener then had the soldiers strip to their t-shirts, pants and socks in full view of everyone in line.
Is the humiliation of passengers part of the TSA job description?
How about disrespect?
Total absence of good sense?
None of those things are listed as a requirement for employment.
UPDATE:Congressman Norm Dicks of Washington's 6th Congressional District read the commentary on-line and had detailed conversations with TSA and The Department of Homeland Security officials back in D.C.
The TSA says that protocols and training will be updated to assure nothing like this happens again; military personnel escorting a body for burial will go from the airport tarmac directly to the boarding area. All other military travelers in uniform will, if necessary, be taken to a private area if a more detailed search is required.
The two Fort Lewis soldiers will be getting a formal apology from TSA officials for what they were made to endure out at Sea-Tac.
It has yet to be decided what, if any, disciplinary action will be taken against the screener at Sea-Tac.
How about sending the asshole back to Somalia or whatever shithole he crawled out of?
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