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Fake Military

From Emergent Chaos: the TSA behavior detection team had the state boys in Florida lock up a gentleman in an irregular army uniform. The acronym for this magic (you knew it was coming) is “Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT)”.

A little over ten years ago, I was SPOTed by a Marine recruiter in the high school cafeteria. I was wearing my dad’s old USMC short sleeve dress shirt with sergeant stripes on the sleeves and a Led Zeppelin t-shirt under it. The recruiter headed directly for me, so that he could let me know that I outranked him. He also told me that it was illegal to wear the uniform with the stripes still on it, and was I aware of the many exciting things the United States Marine Corps could do for me.

He didn’t seem to mind that I wasn’t really in Led Zeppelin.

Proximate posts in the Blog collection
Newer Frozen action 30 May 2007
Flavius Belisarius 29 May 2007
This post Fake Military 24 May 2007
Older Rodrigo y Gabriela 23 May 2007
Schneier: Rare Risks Breed Irrational Responses 23 May 2007
Proximate posts in the General collection
Newer Frozen action 30 May 2007
Flavius Belisarius 29 May 2007
This post Fake Military 24 May 2007
Older Rodrigo y Gabriela 23 May 2007
Schneier: Rare Risks Breed Irrational Responses 23 May 2007