How would you like an 18 year-old frisking you or your spouse? My thinking is Drumpf doesn't care. His job is to provide Putin with chaos.

Saint Ronnie played the long game back then by secretly training the fired ATCs replacements before he fired them. The military ATCs were used as a transition.

In this case you’d have a bunch of soldiers who don’t want to be there and aren’t trained on how to run the millimeter wave scanners so many airports use now. It would be a cluster fuck.

is that he can't do it. There would be an uproar in the contracting world. Look around an airport and the TSA has numerous subcontractors directing people through the security lines.

While the small fry have a large percentage of the TSA agents under contract, they probably don't represent a very big slice of the federal contracting handouts.

Since tdump is totally incapable of actually enunciating a sentence, let alone a directive, someone that has hands in deep pockets is helping him disrupt the US economy and government and plans to profit BIGLY.

Some of these may be existing US contractors that have played games in government for decades, and some may be foreign interests - ones that have been also playing for a long time.

So, shorter story: Dump is planning on closing gov't and replacing with mercenaries. Just my 0.02₽

In 2002 I worked for a subcontractor of Lockheed Martin upgrading airport security. The program/project was known as SASR...Strategic Airport Security Rollout. Turns out I was employed by a sub/subcontractor. Government contracting is a joke. It's always the big guys that get the contracts one way or another.

They'd have to deploy and train thousands of soldiers in a very short period. Even though it's not a hard job, there are still things you have know and do efficiently.

And rules of engagement mean that the passenger was at fault?

The sheeple wanting to go visit grandma will be much more compliant. Just what Herr Doktor ordered.

The military isn’t trained to read scanners.

Maybe military police, but I would imagine they’re needed elsewhere.

TSA serves a law enforcement function. The US Military is forbidden by the Posse Comitatus Act from doing law enforcement against civilians in the US.

I wouldn't put it past Trump to try it, but directing the military to do law enforcement in the US is an illegal order.

Trump may try the same.

The Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force are not covered.