Why do they need a separate Air Marshall Service?
My proposals: 1. Dissolve the Air Marshall Service and transfer all the agents to the U.S. Marshall Service. 2. Fire all the bureaucrats. 3. Train U.S. Deputy Marshals for flight security. 4. Rotate Deputy Marshals through periods of flight duty and back to their other duties (court house security, hunting fugitives, etc) thereby reducing flight time of any single deputy. Author ID: 8662 | 9/20/2006 09:53 AM CST | #70594 | • A big part of the problem is that before 9/11 the Air Marshall program was under the FAA which was part of DOT. Now the thing is DHS, DOT, FAA, then Air Marshalls I believe. A number of the Air Marshalls are putting in more flight time than pilots are allowed to have. As indicated in NJSoldiers comment, you have inexperienced paper pushers and political appointees running an anti-terrorist department. The FAA had Red teams blowing through airport security and getting onto planes, and spotting the air marshalls with ease, at least prior to lifting the restriction on
