From: Employee at MILVEHCO (milveh@dslextreme.com)
Date: Mon Aug 08 2005 - 17:20:35 PDT
Before deploying from Savannah, Georgia to Iraq by a chartered airliner;
the troops of the 48th Brigade Combat Team, a National Guard unit, had to
go through the same security checks as any other passengers.
Lt. Col. John King, the unit's commander, told his 280 fellow soldiers
that FAA anti-hijacking regulations require passengers to surrender pocket
knives, nose hair scissors and cigarette lighters. "If you have any of
those things," he said, almost apologetically, "put them in this box now."
The troops were, however, allowed to keep their assault rifles, body
armour, helmets, pistols, bayonets and combat shotguns.
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