Summary
Starting Sept. 1, spotting the Federal Air Marshal on your flight to Hawaii won't be easy anymore. Federal Air Marshal Service Director Dana Brown, who took office five months ago, announced in a memo this week that the remaining dress-code restrictions and even the hotel rules will be discarded to "allow you to blend in and not direct attention to yourself." Nice going, Mr. Brown.
Last year, then-Director Thomas Quinn came under fire after The Washington Times reported that the strict marshal dress code made for too-easy identification. Marshals, who are armed, are supposed to be covert. They weren't. The proverbial example was the stiff- looking air marshal, coat-jacketed with starched collar, amid vacationers on a flight to Hawaii. Experience bore out the anecdote: The marshal is the guy who boards the flight early, sports a crew cut and is conspicuously dressed up.See the full content of this document
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Blending In
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