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Oakland Airport found legitimate in troop treatment

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Posted by gorb 2008-02-01 05:02|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Airport officials were concerned that the flight's ground staff could not provide "an adequate level of escort and control of such a large group of military personnel in or around the terminal area," the inspector's report said.

It's very rare that I think the TSA is concerned about flyers, I think what happened is they weren't concerned.

Posted by Pancho Uninemble1793 2008-02-01 08:33|| 2008-02-01 08:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Curse Oakland. I will never use that airport again. Curse it. Damn them to hell.

Posted by newc">newc 2008-02-01 09:15|| 2008-02-01 09:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Of course. Not the pinheads who made the decision to treat them like criminals.

No, I believe they would have let murders, thugs, and child molesters roam the airport free-range. This is Oakland after all....

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-02-01 10:20|| 2008-02-01 10:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Probably much better of a reception than they would have gotten in S.F. airport. I have no doubt that they wouldn't have even let them off the plane onto their precious piece of shit liberal tarmac. My father lives right outside Oakland and he didn't hear a word about this until I told him. They burried it in the Bay Area.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-02-01 11:47|| 2008-02-01 11:47|| Front Page Top

#5 I think the US needs to USE the established facilities we have for handling passengers - I.E., McChord, Travis, and all the other Military Airlift Command facilities that are specifically designed to handle large numbers of transits. Cut the civilians out completely (and also cut out paying them for servicing these aircraft). Watch who squeals THEN! Hell, every military airfield in the United States has, at a minimum, a Base Operations building, and most have a small passenger terminal with at least vending machines. They're also secure, so we won't have to worry about the "weapons" on board. Let the "civilians" eat dirt.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-02-01 19:28|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-02-01 19:28|| Front Page Top

#6 IIUC, here in San Diego, they use Miramar MCAS for security and ease, isn't there something similar in the bay area, or the AF base near SAC? Bypass the shoe-checking assholes and lessen the $ paid to the regions that are treasonous. Let Congress punish them financially

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-02-01 19:41|| 2008-02-01 19:41|| Front Page Top

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