Soldiers and Porno-Scanners

Writes a friend:

Pertaining to Mike Adams’s article, I know from experience that the TSA actually does have a “trusted traveler” program. Sort of. (Unofficially?) While returning to Iraq from R&R for my second deployment my group flew out of Atlanta. While we uniformed soldiers still had to walk through the TSA checkpoints, there were a few things that we didn’t have to do. We didn’t have to take our boots off nor did we have to take our belts off. Then we walked through the metal detector and a point was made not to subject the uniformed soldiers to the pornscanner.

Or maybe that’s just an anomaly. (Perhaps to help the citizenry feel like their soldiers are being given the proper amount of respect?) Because, while we were leaving Kuwait at the end of my second deployment, Navy Customs subjected a large minority of soldiers to the pornscanner. (Or was it just inter-service rivalry?) Sadly I was one of these unfortunates. We uniforms don’t have the option to refuse an order without their being a significant reprisal. :-/

The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.