Posted on 08/06/2006 8:09:39 PM PDT by radar101
Dana Brown, the new director of the Federal Air Marshal Service, never really thought there was a morale problem when he was promoted to the top position in March, but then again, he never asked. But now he is asking, and the Transportation Security Administration's 2006 Organizational Satisfaction Survey confirms what he is hearing from his men and women who are protecting America's skies from another terrorist attack. "The results are not good," Mr. Brown said in a five-page memo last week to all agents within the Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS).
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How about we do away with paid air marshals, and go back to the criteria before 1979, when all aircraft that carried mail HAD to have an armed pilot.
Then we could have a criteria for training where all citizens with training could carry. Imagine, pass a skills and tactics test, and you too could carry concealed.
That's my thought: Establish a Federal Concealed Carry permit that would allow the holder to carry on an airplane. Minimal cost, maximum effect.
The results of one more gift from the clinton mis-Administration-Norm Minetta(sp?).
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