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Airline Pilots Security Alliance - Federal Air Marshals (545 words) |
 | Some other federal agencies’ officers were given cursory training to augment the federal air marshal corps when activated in high threat conditions, but the number of dedicated federal air marshals covering our air transportation system today has now dwindled to about 2200, according to press reports. |
| Special boarding procedures applied to air marshals also compromise their identities, as do requirements to identify themselves to the hotel staffs where they are required to spend the night in different cities. |
| Federal Air Marshals protect the passenger cabin AND the flight deck, allowing the pilots to perform their primary responsibility of landing the aircraft in an emergency. |
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