More TSA "stuff"

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by fatbuckRTO

That said, military members do fly back on chartered commercial flights with weapons in hand. Happens all the time.

I have no problem believing that troops carry weapons on chartered flights, seeing as how the definition of "chartered" means it's a private flight that isn't open to the public. But why do people going on what is essentially a private flight need to bother seeing the TSA, as the original story claims? Why can't they work out a system where the troops go directly to/from the hangar where that plane is going to be?