Before and After 9/11 Airport Security On September 11, 2001, there was a terrorist attack where an airplane crashed into the Twin Towers in New York killing thousands of Lives. The disaster of 9/11 has affected many citizens in the way they see the United States if it is a safe country to live in. The tragedy of 9/11 impacted Americans and Terrorist lives. Ever since 9/11 happened security has changed, especially in the airport because laws became strict on what you can take or not take on an…
Privacy or National Security The Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution protects our right of privacy and the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. But to what extent? I believe that these rights may be bent depending on the situation that is occurring. If the situation is involving national security, then I do agree these rights should be put on pause for the moment. I feel that national security is more important than privacy to an extent. I feel that…
Director for Law Enforcement (AFSD-LE). I have significant experience working in local, state and federal law enforcement communities and a great understanding of the dynamics that drive each. As a member of TSA’s Office of Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service (OLE/FAMS) for the last 10-years and having multiple supervisory, field office and headquarters assignments, I have gained considerable insight to the inner workings of TSA. With more than four-years of experience as the FBI’s…
the war, it was simply to survive. While Germany began its raid of the United Kingdom through the air, the British people took to the skies to defend their homeland, in what would be called the Battle of Britain and total war for the British population. Many leaders emerged to rally the people to combat the Nazi attacks, however, crucial to the British victory in the Battle of Britain was Air Chief…
red polo shit and sagging cargo pants with sunglasses pressed into his forehead. I was already talking to a family from the Carolinas interpreting the experiences of the town’s citizens after the war, when across the former slave states Provost Marshals were replaced by agents of the newly formed Freedman’s Bureau. They were good visitors, they asked excellent questions. I told them of the intense conflict in Harpers Ferry and surrounding area, of the resistance from the town’s white residents…
In late May of 2016, I was referred to as one of several “costumed character” in grammatically troubled, but overall positive TripAdvisor review. My supervisor John King was visibly angry, not at me (this time), but at the visitor. “These aren’t costumes. This isn’t Disneyland.” For three months, I wore period clothing (this was John King’s preferred term and one does not fail to use John King’s term). The period was the mid-nineteenth century. Depending on my scheduled tours and assigned…
Administration (TSA) to train and arm airline pilots who volunteered for the program in order for the pilots to keep the passengers safe when carrying firearms onboard. The act was tried to be prevented by a group of professionals which was composed by the Air Transport Association, James Loy (the second administrator of TSA), and executives of twenty-one top airline companies (including American, United, Delta, Northwest, etc…), but the action failed (qtd. in Renna…
playful, merry little girl in other words. Pocahontas was born in 1595, in the small city of Werowocomoco, Virginia. Her father was Chief Powhatan, who had a numberless amount of wives. His informal name was Wahunsunacock. At a young age, after Pocahontas was born,…
MEMORANDUM THRU Chief, RTSD EAST MEMORANDUM TO Director, Training Support Activity Europe SUBJECT: Trip Report, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade Training Management Review (TMR). 1. Purpose of this Trip: Attendance at the 12th CAB TMR 2. Executive Summary: 12th CAB held their TMR on 27 October 2016, from 1500 to 1745 hours at building Berlin conference room clay Kaserne. The BDE Commander, COL Waters and his BN Commanders and staff briefed the USAREUR Deputy Commander, MG McGuire and USAREUR…
World only to find Jamestown, Virginia’s settlers undergo with winter famine. Rolfe is accredited with the bountiful development of tobacco as an export crop in Jamestown and is recognized as the spouse of Matoaka, otherwise known as Pocahontas, the chief 's daughter of the Powhatan Alliance. John Rolfe would define success as a triumphant cultivator of tobacco and arbiter between the English colonists and Powhatan tribe. John Rolfe Junior was born in Norfolk, England around 1585. He was the…