This is almost too good to be true, but WE can believe it!!
This was taken from an issue of an email newsletter published=A0by the AirFinance Journal.=A0=A0
Before deploying from Savannah, Georgia, to Iraq by a chartered=A0airliner, the troops of the 48th Brigade=A0Combat Team, a National Guard unit, had to go through the same=A0security checks like any other passengers.
Lt.=A0Col. John King, the unit's commander, told his 280 fellow soldiers=A0 that FAA anti-hijacking regulations require=A0passengers to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and cigarette lighters. "If you have any of those=A0things," he said, almost apologetically, "put them in this box=A0now."
The troops were, however, allowed to keep=A0hold of their assault rifles, body armour, helmets, pistols,=A0bayonets and combat shotguns.
31 for 05OKC Dave