Records detail missing TSA badges, uniforms[3700 Badges/Uniforms]

KGBT-4 ^ | 21Dec 2006 | Brian Collister

[FLOutdoorsman]

SAN ANTONIO More than 37-hundred Transportation Security Administration badges and uniforms have gone missing since 2003. That's according to records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by W-O-A-I-T-V in San Antonio.

Los Angeles International Airport reported the most missing items -- 636 uniforms. O'Hare International Airport in Chicago reported 189 badges missing.

Bush International Airport in Houston reported 77 missing badges.

Security experts say badges and uniforms could end up in the wrong hands -- posing a national security threat.

Despite the thousand of missing items, T-S-A field operations general manager Earl Morris says the system is far from flawed. Morris says various levels of security would thwart attempts to breech security.

Republican Congressman Lamar Smith of Texas says he wants to propose legislation to fine T-S-A employees who lose their badges or uniforms.

[FLOutdoorsman]

Oldie but goodie.

Also, in the news today. BWI is reporting that they are missing 426 Badges/Uniforms. http://washingtontimes.com/business/20070115-115346-2426r.htm

[TweetEBird007]

BAD hiring practices.

[pissant]

I'm sure some guy named Joe Adams stole them.

[CindyDawg]

Why not issue them when they arrive to work and making them turn them back in when they leave?

[neodad]

Good thing that they're professionals now.

[RetiredArmy]

End up in the wrong hands?????? No s**t sherlock!! No freaking s**t!!! What master mind thought that sentence up???

[gathersnomoss]

And who will clean those pesky skid marks?

[CindyDawg]

Sorry. You lost me:')

[Calpernia]

Now add this:


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1768308/posts
Iran Gets Army Gear in Pentagon Sale

[Calpernia]

ping

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Only 3700?

Thank goodness. (For a minute I thought this might be serious.)

[Red Badger]

WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKIN' BADGES!.........

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Did anyone check Sandy Berger's pants?

[Hegemony Cricket]

No kidding. As if there is some innocuous use for stolen TSA uniforms? Grease rags, maybe?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Change the ID occasionally without notice.

[mosesdapoet]

Good news for badge and uniform makers, check their stock prices, before and after.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

'twould be small change compared to a planeload of people. Years ago, we lived overseas and our dollars were script (MPC)...
To keep the flow of this money under some control, the Army would change the "blue" money for a new color and watch carefully for folks who brought in large quantities of cash during the change-over.

[Velveeta]

~groan~

It will only take ONE breech, Mr. Morris.

[mosesdapoet]

Yes I remember script and those times when a dollar which could be exchanged for local currency which I should have deposited in a local savingsbank. And withdraw it out 30 years later.