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Police Stopping All Cars Entering BWI Tuesday January 06, 2004 11:20am Linthicum, Md. (AP) - Maryland Transportation Authority police are stopping all cars entering Baltimore-Washington International Airport for security checks. Police officials say that the "100 percent security checks" began after 10 a.m. Police say the sweeps are not a response to a specific threat. Police aren't saying how long they will continue checking every car that enters the airport. Airport officials say that the sweeps are not expected to create major delays entering the airport. And they still recommend that passengers plan on arriving 90 minutes before their scheduled...

<p>Adrienne Trout's energetic greetings to troops milling through Baltimore-Washington InternationalAirport on Wednesday morning make her seem more like a cheerleader than a nonprofit director.</p> <p>Mrs. Trout, 35, heads the United Service Organization of Metropolitan Washington's lounge at BWI's international pier.</p>

Lt. Christian Dietz, on his way to rejoin his unit in Iraq after two weeks R&R with his family in Washington Township, Mich., assumed he would miss Thanksgiving. Lt. Dietz, 26, was walking to buy a sandwich at a fast food restaurant at BWI Airport yesterday when an employee from Southwest Airlines directed him to an employee's lounge. There Lt. Dietz and his fellow soldiers were given plates piled high with generous portions of turkey, stuffing and all the trimmings. "This is great," said Lt. Dietz, of the 40th Engineering Battalion, as he worked on his food. "This is the...

As the automatic doors leading out of customs at BWI Airport swung open, a loud, sustained cheer rang out. The troops just off the plane from Iraq -- looking gritty in their desert camouflage uniforms -- stopped short. "Welcome back. Good to have you home," said Bill Self, a Vietnam War veteran, extending his hand to each soldier arriving for two weeks of home leave. Beyond him, a second line of veterans was waiting with telephone cards allowing the soldiers to make free calls across the country. At the end of the gantlet stood Ray Shipley, 75, a Korean War...

Veterans Welcome R&R-Bound Troops By K.L. VantranAmerican Forces Press Service BALTIMORE, Nov. 14, 2003 - The moonlight dances with the lights on the tarmac at Baltimore-Washington International Airport as the winds blow rustling leaves across the runway. It's 4 a.m., or "oh-dark thirty" as those in the military like to say. Inside, custodians busily mop floors around passengers who have sacked out on airport chairs. The area is silent, save for a handful of people quietly talking as they wait for the next flight from Iraq in the military's rest and recuperation leave program. Bill and Carolyn Self move...

Dear Friends and Family, I hope that you will spare me a few minutes of your time to tell you about something that I saw on Monday, October 27. I had been attending a conference in Annapolis and was coming home on Sunday. As you may recall, Los Angeles International Airport was closed on Sunday, October 26, because of the fires that affected air traffic control. Accordingly, my flight, and many others, were canceled and I wound up spending a night in Baltimore. My story begins the next day. When I went to check in at the United counter Monday...

Weary Travelers Support Operation Iraqi Freedom Troops at BWI By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2003 — Nearly everyone has experienced it at one time or another: an airport bogged down by bad weather, delayed and cancelled flights, and cranky, overtired travelers wanting nothing more than to get to their destinations. That's exactly what Will Ross, an administrative judge for the Defense Department's Office of Hearings and Appeals in Los Angeles, encountered Oct. 27 at Baltimore/Washington International Airport. But what he witnessed that day, he said, "made me proud to be an American, and also...

Like all major airports, Baltimore-Washington International is used to emotional scenes. But it can have witnessed few in recent years such as the encounters of yesterday, as nearly 200 American soldiers, still in their desert fatigues, returned home for a brief break from Iraq. The opening of the swing doors from the Customs hall was greeted by loud intakes of breath and cheers. Then the spell was broken and a young woman with a six-month-old baby charged past the barrier and fell into an oncoming soldier's arms. Sergeant Corey Rieken was seeing his boy for the first time. He left...

To escort plane to BWI, FBI questioning 3 passengers I did not hear this myself, can anyone confirm???

MFN-FIRE/EMS: Anne Arundel Co, MD/ Haz-Mat on the Aircraft/ BWI Airport/ Units req several Medic Units and EMS Super/ Mut Aid from Surrounding Co's/ Unknown Chemical/ AA Alarmers enroute. (Nextel Scott) MFN-1 Radio reports approximately 30 patients being deconned at this time.