Inconsistency of Air Travel with Firearms.....

[deepwater]

TSA SUCKS!!!!!!!!
     most of the tsa emplpyees are rejects that can't get a lazier job anywhere else. sure, there are a few good ones, but they are far outnumbered by the dickheads. I had to get a TWIC card in order to continue working in the shipping ind. twic is transportation workers identification card. issued by tsa. the cards are useless. NONE of the tsa employees at the airports so far have been able to recognize it or accept it! sir, do you have another form of id? duh.... also, when picking up my credential in Fl. I talked to the man issuing it, and he says that tsa has the highest workers comp rate in the US. I don't know if that's true, but I believe it. oh yeah the twic card, all US merchant mariners were required to get one or lose their documents, licenses etc... what's special about this card? nothing. it's a background check, bio information etc. everything I have to go through for my merchant mariners doc with the Coast Guard. go figure. and the best part.... nobody has readers for the cards, they're electronic, so if you don't have a reader you have very little info available on the card itself.    TSA is a waist of money and manpower!

[Pathfinder]

TSA SUCKS!!!!!!!!
     most of the tsa emplpyees are rejects that can't get a lazier job anywhere else. sure, there are a few good ones, but they are far outnumbered by the dickheads. I had to get a TWIC card in order to continue working in the shipping ind. twic is transportation workers identification card. issued by tsa. the cards are useless. NONE of the tsa employees at the airports so far have been able to recognize it or accept it! sir, do you have another form of id? duh.... also, when picking up my credential in Fl. I talked to the man issuing it, and he says that tsa has the highest workers comp rate in the US. I don't know if that's true, but I believe it. oh yeah the twic card, all US merchant mariners were required to get one or lose their documents, licenses etc... what's special about this card? nothing. it's a background check, bio information etc. everything I have to go through for my merchant mariners doc with the Coast Guard. go figure. and the best part.... nobody has readers for the cards, they're electronic, so if you don't have a reader you have very little info available on the card itself.    TSA is a waist of money and manpower!

More on the TWIC here: https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/102

It's a form of the DHS Real ID national ID card, a step in that direction.

[Hazcat]

TWIC is now impacting the trucking industry too.

Gonna ship something?  Well the trucker that takes it to the port now has to have TWIC and most don't!  REAL PITA!

[deepwater]

yes, the TWIT card is a pain. but the real pain is that it's still useless. I paid for this damn thing so I wouldn't lose my job, and now the rejects that required it to begin with don't even recognize it. it contains all the same info my coast guard documentation has and it's a federally issued document.   WHY? 

[Sgt Z Squad]

Thanks for the laughs at all of the stories everyone! 

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