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posted by takyon on Monday January 07 2019, @09:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the groped-into-it dept.

Hundreds of Transportation Security Administration officers, who are required to work without paychecks through the partial government shutdown, have called out from work this week from at least four major airports, according to two senior agency officials and three TSA employee union officials.

The mass call outs could inevitably mean air travel is less secure, especially as the shutdown enters its second week with no clear end to the political stalemate in sight. "This will definitely affect the flying public who we (are) sworn to protect," Hydrick Thomas, president of the national TSA employee union, told CNN.


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Monday January 07 2019, @03:05PM (2 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday January 07 2019, @03:05PM (#783196) Homepage Journal

    Big delay, that's so true. But, not because of your favorite President! I've always always said, I want toughness & vigilance on radical Islamic terrorism. We must be smart. My first full week as President, I did the Muslim Ban. Otherwise known as Travel Ban. To keep the terrorists out of our wonderful Country. And now, after not even 2 years, I'm still in my 2nd year, my brave soldiers have killed Jamal. Very proud that Jamal's dead. This major, major terrorist. Obama's soldiers didn't kill him. Bush Jr.'s soldiers didn't kill him. And my good friend Bill Clinton didn't kill him.

    And by the way, I wasn't President when that horrible attack on the U. S. S. Cole happened. It was my buddy Bill. Who, he plays a mean game of golf. And he's a great husband, from what I hear, he's great. But as President, maybe not the best. He sent so many ships to the Middle East. To protect the Oil Tankers. And where was the payment for that? Very little payment. Look, if they want us to do the fighting, they also have to pay a price. And sometimes that's also a monetary price. So we're not the suckers of the world. We're no longer the suckers, folks. And people aren't looking at us as suckers.

    U. S. S. Liberty, that's another one. Where, we had a Dem President. Known as L. B. J.. Who was trying to "win" in Vietnam. Very hard one to win, and maybe it wasn't even possible. As everybody in the Deep State knew -- Sigma I-64. But they told L. B. J., "oh, hang in there, and we'll get so much respect from those other countries!" He kept his military in there and it became an absolute disaster. As everyone knows.

    So the Vietnam thing is going on, so much military in there. And the Deep State were wondering, "oh, what about the Middle East, what's happening in Egypt & Israel?" And they sent a very small Spy Ship. With very small Guns. And no Escort. The Navy guys always do the Escort, right? They had so many ships, you'd think they could do the Escort. But, Vietnam. So we had another horrible attack, even worse than the Cole. Because the Cole made it. But U. S. S. Liberty, they scrapped that one. They looked at, how much will it cost to fix that one up. And the damage was just too much. And it was also a tremendous loss of so many of our beautiful, and very brave Sailors & Spies. Some incredible men on that one. Which also happened with the Cole. But, at least the Cole was worth repairing. A lot of damage to that one too. But, it was a much newer ship. And, it wasn't captured. The Liberty was captured. So they had to smash all the cyber. They smashed the digital and threw that in the water. It was some of the wettest we’ve ever seen from the standpoint of water. Cole, they kept the digital. And they saved that one by fixing up the hole. There was a loss of life, and may God be with them and their families. And it certainly is not good. But they kept the expenses down. And we're looking very closely at, how much is it costing us to send our Military to all these places. And, how much are we getting paid for it. We send too many of our guys & gals around the World to die. Without getting the BIG MONEY we need and deserve. Not for long, believe me!!!

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Monday January 07 2019, @03:55PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 07 2019, @03:55PM (#783215) Journal

    But, not because of your favorite President!

    It wasn't the fault of either of my favorite presidents. Both Eisenhower and Kennedy were underground long before 9/11/01.

    And, BTW, Liberty was no "small ship". It's much larger than the destroyers I served on - comparable to a WW2 battle cruiser, for size. The escort was available, but it seems that Admiral McCain denied the Liberty an escort. And, help was available for the Liberty almost immediately after the attack started, but help was bungled. (They sent two nuclear armed jets to "help", then called them back when someone higher up realized how badly they were fucking up.) The SOVIETS were the first people to arrive on scene, and to make a credible offer of assistance. (The Israelis did ask if Liberty needed help, after they shot her up, but the reply was "go fuck yourselves".)

    And, finally, no, the Liberty was not captured. The ship remained under the command of United States Naval officers for the duration of the incident. IF the Israelis had sent a boarding party of perhaps 25 men, they MIGHT have captured the ship. It would have been pretty difficult to defend the ship with the entire crew lying around, doing a credible job of bleeding to death.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @09:50PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @09:50PM (#783395)

      I doubt 25 men could have boarded the ship. Even though they took pretty good losses, wikipedia says they have a crew of 300. Plus they have automatic rifles, pistols, cannons and crew serve weapons. The crew is having a pretty bad day .These guys have been fighting fires and stopping floods and maybe after seeing enough of better men getting killed, they've convinced themselves they're probably going to die today anyhow so they might happily take a few rounds or something else suicidal.
      Not to mention the dangers associated with running around in a ship that's on fire and taking water, plus if you're not running DC-central you have no idea what's actually safe, what's a boobie trap, and what's turned off because it's busted. It would have to be a pretty well planned operation with a lot of supporting ships.
      US Sailors get killed onboard scuttled ships with some regularity and these are barely armed merchant ships staffed by old men and fat lardos with no combat training. For comparison US Sailors are rarely killed by those who attempt to engage boarding teams with firehoses or small arms, such fights are usually comically one sided.