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[Ray B]

Not to change the subject from Big Brother but I haven't had a response to my questions from yesterday regarding the information posted by @Red Leg .

Question about Russian Army units. Motor Rifle Division and Combined Arms Army- What are the armaments and means of transportation of these units and are the ones noted the equivalent of a US Army Division and Army?

 

[Red Leg]

Not to change the subject from Big Brother but I haven't had a response to my questions from yesterday regarding the information posted by @Red Leg .

Unlike the Russian organization structure in WWII, the modern Russian organization for combat is in some flux. This is not a bad review. Like WWII, generally usually most of the time Russian organizations are smaller than western equivalents.

U.S. And Russian Armies: Organizational And Staff Structure

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[mdwest]

I've always wondered about that? Almost always, I'm sent to the TSA Pre Check line even though I've never signed up for it or anything else. I've never been told the reason why, but maybe my previous LE career has something to do with it? And, most of my flights have been domestic with no passport, so it's very strange. What else is in their data bases?

While a LEO did you ever go through the “Flying Armed” program or ever get blue badged at a major airport?

FAA and TSA records will follow you for a lifetime…

 

[CoElkHunter]

While a LEO did you ever go through the “Flying Armed” program or ever get blue badged at a major airport?

FAA and TSA records will follow you for a lifetime…

Nope. Trying to fly incognito? But I do have my H.R. 218 still in effect.

 

[mdwest]

Nope. Trying to fly incognito? But I do have my H.R. 218 still in effect.

Not sure if LEOSA would trigger TSA.. but I suppose it’s possible..

I got Blue Badged at Dulles and at Reagan back during a period that I was working under Fed credentials… and went through the flying armed certification process on a couple of occasions when I was with different agencies… I’m sure I’m still on TSA’s “watch this guy… he’s sketchy” list somewhere lol..

 

[Fred Gunner]

But I do have my H.R. 218 still in effect.

As as Retired DOJ LEO and former Union Local president I lobbied Congress twice a year for five years for HR218. HR 218 only exempts Law Enforcement Officers from State or Local Laws not Federal laws or regulations. Airports and even your local Post Office are under Federal Law...You buy a book of stamps with your gun inside your waist band you're a felon.

 

[fourfive8]

@CoElkHunter, Same boat here, retired, with both state and federal LE background. Sometimes get the TSA pre check, sometimes not. I prefer to go as an invisible hobbit anyway, never any issues. But the pre check line is nice because it is shorter. Never needed to travel armed so that was and is no issue.

Before retiring, my nephew had high security NORAD facilities clearance with IDs. For two or three years, every time he flew, he got pulled out of line before security check in. He was told he was on the no fly list- what a hassle! Took him a couple of years to get that straightened out. Who knows what algorithms TSA uses??

 

[CoElkHunter]

As as Retired DOJ LEO and former Union Local president I lobbied Congress twice a year for five years for HR218. HR 218 only exempts Law Enforcement Officers from State or Local Laws not Federal laws or regulations. Airports and even your local Post Office are under Federal Law...You buy a book of stamps with your gun inside your waist band you're a felon.

Thanks for your efforts in getting HR218 passed! I'm thinking since it's a Federal statute, those that continue to have it, are somehow "pinged" at airports and thus ushered into the "TSA Pre Flight" lines? Maybe not? It might be my good looks that gets me into the pre flight line OR the fact that I know Townsend @Bob Nelson 35Whelen? Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

 

[mdwest]

. Trying to fly incognito? .

The old flying armed program (I’m assuming it’s still in place?) was a training requirement for LEO’s (mostly fed.. but any Leo could do it if there was an operational requirement supported by the agency) for guys that needed to be armed while in transit … basically guidance on interacting with the Air Marshal and flight crew, getting through the airport itself and security with a weapon on, response to threats, etc…)

Blue Badging was getting ID cards that allow you to be armed inside a specific airport, bypass TSA, etc… essentially the same access cards provided to the airport police…

A billion years ago I ran a program that required me to be armed pretty much every waking moment both domestically and internationally (legally), to include when in flight…

All of my assigned agents were required to do the flying armed thing to satisfy the airlines and FAA (and foreign FAA equivalents)… and since we were DC based, we went through the process of getting blue badges at both major airports we typically traveled from and back into to make things easier/simpler and to reduce the attention level when rolling through the airports..

 

[CoElkHunter]

The old flying armed program (I’m assuming it’s still in place?) was a training requirement for LEO’s (mostly fed.. but any Leo could do it if there was an operational requirement supported by the agency) for guys that needed to be armed while in transit … basically guidance on interacting with the Air Marshal and flight crew, getting through the airport itself and security with a weapon on, response to threats, etc…)

Blue Badging was getting ID cards that allow you to be armed inside a specific airport, bypass TSA, etc… essentially the same access cards provided to the airport police…

A billion years ago I ran a program that required me to be armed pretty much every waking moment both domestically and internationally (legally), to include when in flight…

All of my assigned agents were required to do the flying armed thing to satisfy the airlines and FAA (and foreign FAA equivalents)… and since we were DC based, we went through the process of getting blue badges at both major airports we typically traveled from and back into to make things easier/simpler and to reduce the attention level when rolling through the airports..

I did an out of state extradition ONCE in the early '90s. They screwed me out of some promised comp time for it so I never went again. Anyway, a Sergeant and I flew to the Huntsville, TX prison. What a "medieval" looking hell hole that was! We stayed over night and then rented a car and picked up two knuckleheads and flew back to Colorado. The airline rules were that the prisoners had to be uncuffed on the plane. I remember being armed, but I don't remember a lot of paperwork or nonsense at that time for us being armed on the plane. I think our IDs and extradition paperwork was enough?

 

[mdwest]

pre 9/11 that was enough...

Flying Armed is a TSA program that they rolled out in the early 2000's (maybe mid 2002?)... I just googled... it looks like it hasnt changed much (if at all) from when I ran through the program (first time was probably late 2002.. then did it again for the DC based agency mentioned above in the 2005 time frame)...

Law Enforcement | Transportation Security Administration

The TSA Law Enforcement page provides information for law enforcement officers (LEOs) traveling armed. Officers must meet federal qualifications, including being sworn and commissioned to enforce criminal or immigration statutes.

www.tsa.gov

 

[wesheltonj]

Beto just can’t help himself. From Hell yes I’m going to take your AR’s and AK’s, to I am a supporter of the 2nd, to now, I going to buy them from you.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Thanks for your efforts in getting HR218 passed! I'm thinking since it's a Federal statute, those that continue to have it, are somehow "pinged" at airports and thus ushered into the "TSA Pre Flight" lines? Maybe not? It might be my good looks that gets me into the pre flight line OR the fact that I know Townsend @Bob Nelson 35Whelen? Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

@CoElkHunter
Saying you know me at the airport or anywhere else my friend could result in you being arrested, a clip up the side of the head or given a sympathy card for that fact.
Bob

 

[Scott CWO]

@Ray B
Partially, yes.
But, this cannot be avoided. (unless you live in a rainforest with a tribe without any electronic devices)
Even without phones, modern person have always a traceable pattern: work-home-hobby-shopping. Traceable.
Using credit cards, traceable.
Using mobile phone, traceable.
Using home PC, traceable.
Using fixed phone, traceable.
If that this not enough, then you have also annual tax reports.
If you are European legal gun owner, even your medical records are practically public, accesable to police.

On the other hand, my life is so legally boring and predictable that who ever is possibly tracing me, will be bored to death.

There are no untraceable people in modern world. It is just a matter of how hard someone is willing to trace somebody. mobile phones are just a minor part in this story.

I have a client who graduated the Air Force Academy and retired as a Colonel in military intelligence. He has no cell phone or email and won’t let us use a hunting picture of him with his animal in our advertising unless we block his face. He calls once in a while from a landline and we mail hunting contracts to him via the US Mail.

 

[Fred Gunner]

at airports and thus ushered into the "TSA Pre Flight" lines?

It has only happened to me at JFK and Newark because I was traveling with Firearms International? When I traveled for work to Firearms Instructor school at FLETC GA on my credentials zero special treatment. Denver Co for Crime scene preservation nothing. Three trips to Las Vegas for Union meetings every trip with my carry hand guns check in on my credentials no special treatment?

 

[Randy F]

In a war, 38 per cent of Americans would pile their SUVs high and join tailbacks for Canada or Mexico

For many of us war voyeurs watching the news with a glass of sherry, admiration of the little-engine-that-could Ukrainian fighters is underwritten by unease. As families escape to safety, plenty of feisty Ukrainians are remaining behind to battle a far more powerful aggressor, and they’re not all men, either. The question nags, then: in the same circumstances, would we stick around to defend our homelands, or would we cut our losses and get out?

Earlier this month, that’s precisely what a Quinnipiac poll asked Americans. Some 7 per cent answered ‘Don’t know’. But an astonishing 52 per cent of Democrats predicted that they’d skedaddle. Among Republicans, a full quarter would carpool with the hightailing ‘to hell with this!’ Democrats, while 68 per cent would stand their ground – or think they would. Among all respondents, 55 per cent would stay and fight, while 38 per cent would flee. Scaled up, that would be 125 million Yanks storming from the Land of the No Longer Free and the Home of the Not Especially Brave all at once. Quite a stampede.

As Matthew Hennessey observed in the Wall Street Journal, these answers are especially surprising because nothing compelled these folks to tell the truth. People often deceive pollsters, especially when an honest reply seems socially unacceptable. That’s why Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 caught pollsters so unawares: many Trump supporters kept their ostensibly odious voting intentions to themselves. Those Quinnipiac respondents confronted only a pencil-pushing pollster, not a Russian tank crashing through their living room. Surely they’d have been tempted to lie to please – or to show a shred of self-respect. Jesus, they might at least have lied to themselves – imagining that, under duress, they’d rise to the occasion, even if this assumption entailed unwarranted optimism about the extent of their physical courage.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-are-so-few-americans-willing-to-defend-their-country[/URL

Was this fighting age men that were polled?

 

[LivingTheDream]

We have 701 pages discussing how ineffective politicians and government are, and you guys are surprised TSA can't figure out which security check lane someone should go to, LOL.

 

[Red Leg]

I have a client who graduated the Air Force Academy and retired as a Colonel in military intelligence. He has no cell phone or email and won’t let us use a hunting picture of him with his animal in our advertising unless we block his face. He calls once in a while from a landline and we mail hunting contracts to him via the US Mail.

We always tried to keep those guys at several arms lengths. The original tin foil brigades. This one is Air Force as well ..... !?

 

[Sabattiboy]

"600-$800"? Ha! That might have been 5 years ago. My iphone7 was $800 in 2017. Need to keep up Sabattiboy! Ha! Ha!

I forgot when I wrote this that my nieces traded in a phone so took a couple hundred off the phone they got. The company I use has low end smart phones for $160, probably with a discount, but the apple phones go way up. The one niece pays around $40/mo but no idea for how long. Maybe it is a deal where they just pay for life and trade in now and then.

 

[sierraone]

While a LEO did you ever go through the “Flying Armed” program or ever get blue badged at a major airport?

FAA and TSA records will follow you for a lifetime…

During the late 80s and early 90s the Little Rock SWAT unit, of which I was a member for many years, was issued the blue card, not because we flew armed but because we trained on the midnight shift in and out of many of the aircraft that were parked overnight on the tarmac. Best I can remember they were primarily 727s, 737s and DC 9s. The FBI was in charge of the training but was not always there. Probably still have that I.D. in a drawer somewhere.