I'd support the inclusion of well-trained personnel (Sky Marshalls?) on passenger jets of a certain capacity.
Definitely. I'd also consider letting active military and police, or perhaps active military and police with a few years of service be allowed to (but perhaps not required to) carry appropriate weapons when they're on a plane, assuming again proper training.
I would think that the military would be moving lots of people around in the coming times. Troop transports, ec., are part of that, but it occurs to me that there are a lot of flights with empty seats right now, and that there are airlines who'd probably be glad to give something affordable back for the financial assistance they're getting. There're probably several things wrong with this idea, but maybe it's fodder for something more intelligent.
I'd support training of the existing flight crew, both cockpit and cabin personnel, in specific hand-to-hand combat techniques and other techniques aimed at hijacking scenarios....
This is a big one, and tractable.
I'd be willing to have my bags visually searched, if it could be done efficiently by moderately-trained personnel.
Slower, but I'm willing.
A problem that this shares with the current system is not lack of training, but laziness, getting soft. An agressive program of testing to make sure the security procedures are actually followed, including fines or worse to the individual security officers who are found to have "gotten lax", would make a big difference, I suspect, and would create a sustainably higher level of security than just a new set of search rules by themselves. I think. :)
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Definitely. I'd also consider
letting active military and police, or perhaps
active military and police with a few years of
service be allowed to (but perhaps not required to) carry appropriate weapons when they're on a plane, assuming again proper training.
I would think that the military would be moving
lots of people around in the coming times.
Troop transports, ec., are part of that, but it
occurs to me that there are a lot of flights
with empty seats right now, and that there are
airlines who'd probably be glad to give something
affordable back for the financial assistance
they're getting. There're probably several things
wrong with this idea, but maybe it's fodder for something more intelligent.
I'd support training of the existing flight crew, both cockpit and cabin personnel, in specific hand-to-hand combat techniques and other techniques aimed at hijacking scenarios....
This is a big one, and tractable.
I'd be willing to have my bags visually searched, if it could be done efficiently by moderately-trained personnel.
Slower, but I'm willing.
A problem that this shares with the current system is not lack of training, but laziness, getting soft. An agressive program of testing to make sure the security procedures are actually followed, including fines or worse to the individual security officers who are found to have "gotten lax", would make a big difference, I suspect, and would create a sustainably higher level of security than just a new set of search rules by themselves. I think. :)