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Marines Escorting Fallen Comrade Patted Down by TSA

Ryan Singel writes on 27B Stroke 6:

Last week, we reported that the Transportation Security Administration's watchlists were snagging government employees, military officers, and contractors with high level security clearances.

Now a reader of journalist Noah Shachtman's Defense Tech blog brings news that last Wednesday TSA screeners in Philidelphia pulled aside three Marines who were escorting the remains of a soldier, Sergeant Lea Mills, killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in late April.

According to the report posted on Shachtman's blog, Corporals Bigalk and Schadeburg along with Sergeant Stock, were pulled into special screening rooms, where they were forced to remove their dress uniform blouses, shirts and shoes. These were then x-rayed and screeners patted down the Marines.

posted by Fergie @ 5/08/2006 10:41:00 AM