[TPR] Yea its buuulllsheeeit Re: FW: Welcome Home, boys

[Mad Dog Antenucci]

its total BS........... I supppose it could have happened one time but as soon 
as this FUBAR scenerio was reported it would NEVER happen again.  I know for a 
recent fact that all military flights that depart from any civilian airport 
bypass all civilian security checks,......I know this from flying into and out 
of Iraq, Saudi and Afghanistan including BagRam with a H!!) and also working at 
LAX where we saw flights coming and going.

Any departing or arriving civilian flights may have active duty military in 
BDU's but they are not carrying any weapons.......and military flights all most 
always take off and LAND in military airfields....then they taxi to apron where 
buses roll up and military personnel with weapons get on the buses..... where 
they are escorted DIRECTLY to a base and NOT through any fokking TSA or other 
foreign SECURITY pointsstaffed with old men, fat women and pimple faced 
kids....the only GI's going through civilian TSA security are ones who 
transfered with NO WEAPONS on civilian commercial or leased airlines.....unless 
you count clippers   as weapons no weapons ever get transported officially and 
only go through unofficially in sealed diplomatic packages.

One last thing......everyone on active is usually required to fly in the BDU's 
(fatigues)....this is something that did not occur during Nam years as military 
left it up to the GI whether or not he wore his uniform (I always did)....that 
suggestion that wearing your dress uniofrm was an 'option' sort of reinforced 
the anti-military sentiments of the time.....

But since 9-11 every swinging dick by order of the Secretary of Defense is 
obligated to wear his BDU's or dress uniforms on military paid commercial or 
military flights. I know Army and Marines wear their BDU's.....Exceptions are 
provided for SpecOps, Navy and maybe USAF slackers and others sometimes just 
ignore the rule but it is the rule.


Mad Dawg Antenucci 
Team Pantera Racing 
The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing 
www.teampanteraracing.com




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From: John Bentley <gndplne at yahoo.com>
To: tpr <tpr at teampanteraracing.com>
Sent: Fri, December 10, 2010 7:57:05 AM
Subject: [TPR] FW: Welcome Home, boys


This can't be true, but it does highlight the stupidity of the TSA! :)

JB




>Subject: Welcome Home, boys
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>Excuse some almost deleted words.
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>Got this from ___.  It seems the current ignorance baffles America's warriors. 
>Super story, though.
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>As the Chalk Leader for my flight home from Afghanistan, I witnessed the 
>following:
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>When we were on our way back from Afghanistan, we flew out of Baghram Air Field. 
>We went through customs at BAF, full body scanners (no groping), 
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>had all of our bags searched, the whole nine yards.
>Our first stop was Shannon, Ireland to refuel. After that, we had to stop at 
>Indianapolis, Indiana to drop off about 100 folks from the Indiana National 
>Guard. 
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>That's where the stupid started.
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>First, everyone was forced to get off the plane, even though the plane wasn't 
>refueling again. All 330 people got off that plane, rather than let the 100 
>people 
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>from the ING get off. We were filed from the plane to a holding area. No vending 
>machines, no means of escape. Only a male/female latrine.
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>It's probably important to mention that we were ALL carrying weapons.
>Everyone was carrying an M4 Carbine (rifle) and some, like me, were also 
>carrying an M9 pistol. Oh, and our gunners had M-240B machine guns. 
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>Of course, the weapons weren't loaded. And we had been cleared of all ammo well 
>before we even got to customs at Baghram, then AGAIN at customs.
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>The TSA personnel at the airport seriously considered making us unload all of 
>the baggage from the SECURE cargo hold to have it reinspected.
>Keep in mind, this cargo had been unpacked, inspected piece by piece by U.S. 
>Customs officials, resealed and had bomb-sniffing dogs give it a one-hour run 
>through. 
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>After two hours of sitting in this holding area, the TSA decided not to 
>reinspect our Cargo, just to inspect us again: Soldiers on the way home from 
>war, who had 
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>already been inspected, reinspected and kept in a SECURE holding area for 2 
>hours. Ok, whatever.
>So we lined up to go through security AGAIN.
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>This is probably another good time to remind you all that all of us were 
>carrying actual assault rifles, and some of us were also carrying pistols.
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>So we're in line, going through one at a time. One of our Soldiers had his 
>Gerber multi-tool. TSA confiscated it. Kind of ridiculous, but it gets better. A 
>few minutes later, 
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>a guy empties his pockets and has a pair of nail clippers. Nail clippers. TSA 
>informs the Soldier that they're going to confiscate his nail clippers. The 
>conversation went 
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>something like this:
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>TSA Guy: You can't take those on the plane.
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>Soldier: What? I've had them since we left country.
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>TSA Guy: You're not suppose to have them.
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>Soldier: Why?
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>TSA Guy: They can be used as a weapon.
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>Soldier: [touches butt stock of the rifle] But this actually is a weapon. And 
>I'm allowed to take it on.
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>TSA Guy: Yeah but you can't use it to take over the plane. You don't have 
>bullets.
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>Soldier: And I can take over the plane with nail clippers?
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>TSA Guy: [awkward silence]
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>Me: Dude, just give him your damn nail clippers so we can get the f**k out of 
>here. I'll buy you a new set.
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>Soldier: [hands nail clippers to TSA guy, makes it through security]
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>To top it off, the TSA demanded we all be swabbed for "explosive residue" 
>detection. Everyone failed, [go figure, we just came home from a war zone], 
>because we 
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>tested positive for "Gun Powder Residue". Who the F**K is hiring these people?
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>This might be a good time to remind everyone that approximately 233 people 
>re-boarded that plane with assault rifles, pistols, and machine guns, but 
>nothing that 
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>could have been used as a weapon.
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>Can someone please tell me What the F**K happened to OUR country while we were 
>gone?
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>Sgt. Mad Dog Tracy  
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