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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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Hundreds of TSA Screeners, Working Without Pay, Calling Out Sick at Airports
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @09:50PM
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.