They need a more practical uniform, something more like this so they can stay "undercover" -
New TSA "undercover dress code" for Asian destinations.
Posted on 12/07/2004 9:47:07 PM PST by kattracks
A Thanksgiving Day morale booster for federal air marshals has instead turned into possible pink slips for air cops who ignore their strict dress code.
Thomas Quinn, director of the Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS), paid a surprise visit to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Thanksgiving to thank the law-enforcement officials for their holiday work. He reportedly was angered when nearly 30 marshals deplaned and only one was dressed satisfactorily.
In response, supervisors are being assigned to airports nationwide to inspect the air cops before and after flights to make sure business suits or sports coats are being worn, according to numerous memos issued last week and obtained by The Washington Times."The most recent incidents with [New York marshals have] shown that they are not adhering to the agency's dress-code policy," said one memo.
Air marshals are being told that if their dress is not up to snuff, they will be suspended from flight duty. They are referring to the incident as the "Thanksgiving Day massacre."
A spokesman for FAMS could not be reached for comment.
One air marshal who asked not to be identified called it "ridiculous" that marshals are expected to blend in with holiday travelers by wearing a suit.
"On Thanksgiving Day, travelers don't wear business suits to visit family and friends," the marshal said.
The dress-code policy is a sore point among the traveling marshals, who say it compromises their undercover status.
A provision included in the intelligence-reform bill would allow the air marshals to wear less-conspicuous clothing. The final vote on the bill is expected today in the Senate.
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The dress-code policy is a sore point among the traveling marshals, who say it compromises their undercover status.
Gee ya think!
Reminds me of the FBI under Hover(sp) all agents had to be clean shaven and wear business attire.
Inaction vs In Action...That was my problem with Qwest, & their ad campaign. I left Qwest {phone} for Cox {phone} over their "Inaction" and lack of dial tone.
In the 14 Months since I switched, I've always had dial tone. In the 2 months prior; I was lucky to have 20 minutes a day of dial tone. Every House on my block has left Qwest.
I'm always distracted by the hotties on board.
Not me! I'm waaay to spiritual for such earthly things.
That's my story and I'm stickin with it.
Sort of like when the FBI made their agents wear suits in Honolulu...
A TOURIST commented one day, within earshot, of pointing out an agent (undercover one) to another tourist.
They were authorized to wear aloha shirts after that..
They need a more practical uniform, something more like this so they can stay "undercover" -
New TSA "undercover dress code" for Asian destinations.
Thomas Quinn
Unless you are going overseas, I advise taking the train.
bureaucracy run amuck.
Sheesh.
Does anyone besides Bush's immediate crew have a brain in WASH?
I wear a sport coat all the time when flying... I like the extra pockets. I think people tend to assume I'm the air marshal, especially because I almost always fly in seat 2c.
So, Congress has to pass a bill in order to correct the moronic directions of some mid-level bureaucrat and micro-manage a department? Isn't there anybody in the Bush Administration chain of command that could have handled this administratively? As far as I can tell from the story, it wasn't Congress that legislated the dress code in first place but rather just department policy. Doesn't seem that Congess should be wasting time and money dealing with such detail. Am I missing something?
Sometimes we are so damn stupid. Why is this person not fired and replaced with someone with a brain.
One more piece of proof that when it comes to our government, common sense has left the building. It's a bloated, self-serving, self-feeding bureaucratic monster.
MM
What a nitwit. "Undercover" means ... well, ya know ... undercover! Good grief. Why isn't this guy gone already?
That they have to vote on this is a joke...what the hell is the priority????...dress code or finding terrorists???...L.O.L.
..."We must be dressed for success if we are going to kill terrorists".
How about we just go back to the good old days where we could carry what we wanted on planes? If we let people carry (so long as they only carried safety rounds) and made them declare it before getting on the flight, I bet there would be fewer worries about irate or drunk passengers, too.
FIRE NORM MINETA NOW.
AIR MARSHALS MUST BLEND IN.
...In English, Arabic, Farsi and French....all on one shirt.
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