[QUOTE=tugsailor;140025]True, but the MMC says “Homeland Security” right on it in proud print. If the MMC only said issued by USCG, the TSA agents probably won’t accept it. You have to hunt for TSA in fineprint on the back of the Twic. The TSA agent asked me “what’s this an insurance card”?[/QUOTE]
You should have told him it was your Al Qaeda membership card.
“Oh, ok, have a nice flight”
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[QUOTE=roundabout;140036]not to mention the little plastic holder won’t even hold 'em with tearing off![/QUOTE]
Those cheap farks never gave me one. Now I am supposed to obediently put mine in the back of my little red commie passport, aka my merchant mariner credential, the one I am on a sacred dare to use at my next TSA checkpoint (should be around mid-July).
So it’ll be a while before youse guyz get to see me scraping ice offa my windshield. If I’m not babysitting a gubmint research ship somewhere.
Anyone need a decent engineer? We have enough placeholders here.
I tried mine when I first got it and was told it was not a legal ID and I needed to show my drivers license. I said “I got that ID after a background check from homeland security and you want an ID I got from making a 3 point turn?” Haven’t pulled out the twic since
For background on why the TSA is a bunch of TWOTS, see C Captain.
Never has a more useless, more expensive gov’t mandated ID been issued. Lockheed Martin and LEOs working bullshit overtime taking pics and scanning fingertips made out like thieves, while we were just made fools.
In the port of Honolulu, (especially at Pier 1, about 0.1 miles from the USCG office of some sort) I swear by the beard of Zeus that a hang ten, or “shaka” hand signal will in fact get you inside the terminal faster than a TWIC card.
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[QUOTE=brjones;140078]I tried mine when I first got it and was told it was not a legal ID and I needed to show my drivers license. I said “I got that ID after a background check from homeland security and you want an ID I got from making a 3 point turn?” Haven’t pulled out the twic since[/QUOTE]
Sounds just like the time an REC told me my Z-Card was not a valid form of gov’t issued ID for application / license testing purposes!
And no, they never budged on the lunacity of it all.
[QUOTE=Johnny Canal;140082]For background on why the TSA is a bunch of TWOTS, see C Captain.
Never has a more useless, more expensive gov’t mandated ID been issued. Lockheed Martin and LEOs working bullshit overtime taking pics and scanning fingertips made out like thieves, while we were just made fools.
In the port of Honolulu, (especially at Pier 1, about 0.1 miles from the USCG office of some sort) I swear by the beard of Zeus that a hang ten, or “shaka” hand signal will in fact get you inside the terminal faster than a TWIC card.
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Sounds just like the time an REC told me my Z-Card was not a valid form of gov’t issued ID for application / license testing purposes!
And no, they never budged on the lunacity of it all.[/QUOTE]
When I did my twerrp renewal, the twerp office wouldn’t accept it as ID without something else to back it up. I asked if they had a scanner and the broad said they were not required to have one as they were not in a port facility. The woman could not see the irony. What a tool.
A couple weeks ago at Tampa, I had my MMC out, the first TSA guy standing around asked me what country I was from as he had never seen a passport like mine. More positive proof of the lowest common denominator being hired to protect us.
[QUOTE=jdcavo;140073], it’s hard to beleive a reasonable person could think it was an insurance card.[/QUOTE]
Therein lies the rub. “Reasonable person” is probably among the least used descriptions for the otherwise unemployable former street people who found sanctuary in a useless government corporate welfare program.
Haha my bad. I fully retract my rudeness. I thought you were saying something bad about the clerks who have to do all the fingerprinting. The real thief is of course the higher ups.
[QUOTE=seadog6608;140085]When I did my twerrp renewal, the twerp office wouldn’t accept it as ID without something else to back it up. I asked if they had a scanner and the broad said they were not required to have one as they were not in a port facility. The woman could not see the irony. What a tool.
A couple weeks ago at Tampa, I had my MMC out, the first TSA guy standing around asked me what country I was from as he had never seen a passport like mine. More positive proof of the lowest common denominator being hired to protect us.[/QUOTE]
Sadder fact is that a TWIC was refused for entry at the Port of Tampa until sometime in 2013, but a $25 port pass achieved through a bare bones background check and a one page application would give you unfettered 24hr access regardless of what you drove. Could be a POV full of guns or a moving truck full of ammonium nitrate. As long as you said you had no weapons, come on through!!!
I finally have one of those port passes cause they dropped the fee. I got tired of having to take my MMC every time I went ashore. MMC at the main gate and twic at the ships dock. Same in port ev. Those use to be $100 but are now free as well. Hell I have more ID’s in Florida and I don’t even live there
[QUOTE=Johnny Canal;140131]Sadder fact is that a TWIC was refused for entry at the Port of Tampa until sometime in 2013, but a $25 port pass achieved through a bare bones background check and a one page application would give you unfettered 24hr access regardless of what you drove. Could be a POV full of guns or a moving truck full of ammonium nitrate. As long as you said you had no weapons, come on through!!![/QUOTE]
I was able to board my ship at Tampa Cruise Terminal 3 (next to the Aquarium) last July, and this May. We use Tampa often so maybe it’s because we are gub-mint that it didn’t go too badly for us. The security guard gets the crew list and checks it against the TWIC.
Side note: Tampa water is literally shit! Ybor channel? I’m surprised we have not yet sucked a dead body into a sea chest. Nasty nasty nasty almost on a par with Port Au Prince. Or Naples Italy. We had to shift sw strainers on a daily basis pierside just running one gen. (Most of our ships are dsl-elec)