And Houston.
Never been to a dock where I havenât had to show mine. Many have scanners now too.
I wonder if whether anyone who has one should start wearing it around their neck on a shoe string when they are on the ground in transit. Security would be sure to notice and be asking each other
whatâs the deal with these TWIC things.
I know mine lives in my wallet 99.5% of the time where no one ever sees it unless I;m asked for it. .
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Bristow had scanners at both their Galliano (just west of LA1) and Chevron-Leeville heliports. I know it was mandatory to use the reader at Galliano when you checked in but seem to recall the Leeville unit was a âsometime not work-yâ affair.
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The guys on the terrorist watch list were probably happy to show theirs too.
showing a TWIC to a rent-a-cop does nothing to enhance security of anything but a contractorâs income. This has just been made abundantly clear.
I bet the terrorists that blew up the World Trade Center were happy to show their documents to security as well. Ya never know.
I have only been asked to show my TWIC a handful of times. Itâs rare.
Twic was nothing but a scam for some Congressman from Kentucky to create a few $15 an hour jobs in his piss poor hillbilly district.
No hillbillys benefited by this scam, it was a beltway bandit solution looking for a problem and a government contract.
As I recall previous news reports said the Lockheed promised to put a Twic processing center in the Congressmanâs Kentucky district.
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I think it was Tennessee. Thatâs where my renewed TWIC just came from.
I sure enjoy having to make a 6 hour round trip drive and pay $125.50 every 5 years for a completely useless card so that I can work as a mariner.
The sekurity apparat is a hungry machine. But rest assured it exists only so that you can rest assured.
It was Kentucky, and it was intended, at least in part, to benefit the constituents of a Kentucky Congressman.
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Great article.
Greedy Congressmen and their friends in the âsecurity-industrial-complexâ are more dangerous to the wallets and welfare of American taxpayers than Osama could have ever hoped to be.
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after a coupe decades working for the govt. you just accept it and the krap that brought it into being⌠I still donât know whether it was actually a good idea, a good intent, or just a krappy way of someone getting some dollars instigating this thing. no, i donât think iâve ever been asked for it but I do know it was never acceptable to any ââauthorityââ when i showed it off.
More socialism for rich contractors.
Why does government help for the rich not piss off people as much as government help for the bottom 90%? Itâs always been a mystery to me.
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The rich and corporations expect the money, but offer a service or product (no matter how useless) in exchange. The bottom 10-20% expect the money just as much, but offer nothing in exchange for what is seen as an entitlement. I hope it is the majority that doesnât expect government help, except in return for what they have paid or will pay back into the system in the future.
âoffering nothingâ is a step up from offering something actively detrimental at least
Iâm glad you mentioned all those other useless IDâs. Sentry and FastPass specifically. They cost hundreds of dollars and are rendered useless when your âsponsorâ leaves/gets reassigned.
Funniest thing I heard about the TWIC card, is that fake ones only run $100. When have you heard of a counterfeit ID costing less than the real thing?
