Air Marshals Can Dress Like Us Now

Air Marshal Dress Code Changed Aug 24th - 7:23pm By LESLIE MILLER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Air marshals were told Thursday they will be allowed to dress the way they want and choose their own hotels in order to protect their anonymity while on missions. (WTOP News)

Wow! Now this is a good thing. There is no question that security (if you want to call it that) was more of a joke when you could play pick the Air Marshal out of a crowd. That some people actually were taken in for questioning for doing this in days past is even more satirical of the entire process. The Air Marshals have a job to do and to be effective, they have to be anonymous. Being forced to conform with some arbitrary dress code that did not conform to what was actually being warn by the traveling public was just another example of the bumbling attempts to implement security, not to mention possibly jeopardizing the lives of the marshals.

That they can now do their job without additional, unnecessary risk is a good thing. Let us hope that it continues this way.