The last time I flew they ran everyone through the scanner.

Perhaps you are a lot more attractive than you think...

I usually take the redeye when the full body scanner line is the only one open. I fly a few times a month. I hate that thing.

@tarasadies: LOL! Thanks! That's what DH keeps telling me, but he's stuck with me for over 30 years so I suspect that he's still seeing the college-aged me.

refuse the scanner and see how you are treated. I flew once, before removing shoes was mandatory, and I didn't remove them. I was taken to a separate area and searched thoroughly. I laughed the whole time, I had an hour plus to kill. I kindly reminded them that I had a flight and the time of departure, and I complied with their verbal commands. I am not getting scanned either, have been there and done that too.

If you have been through as many pat/frisk searches as I have, and have been wanded as many times as I have, they can't really do anything to you. It is just a tool used to force the masses to conform. Watch your fellow travelers faces when someone is singled out of the herd, like a leper in your midst.

They search small children and the elderly like prisoners are searched when they reenter a correctional facility. They refuse to profile the people who hijack planes.

This issue ticks me off. terrorists adjust, sheep get fleeced.

Nope, I'm also selected almost every time. Because wearing excessively large, baggy, extraordinarily comfortable sweatpants is worth the body scan for me.

Just returned from dropping son at the airport. Everybody was going through the full body scanner. I heard laughter when he went through. He's always horsing around. He tweeted this....

At airport security. Enter body scanner. Strike diva pose. TSA agent bursts out laughing #win

@devexityspace: Before I retired from the AF I always flew in uniform. I was tagged for security screening (it used to show on the screen at the gate who needed "extra" security).

Once I was seen to be in uniform, they moved to the next guy in line. I thought I'd noticed it and finally asked someone at the counter one day and was told "we're not going to screen someone in uniform; we know what you guys are doing".

That was all before 2008.

I'm a Marine and I have my tactical backpack on when I travel and they Always pick me for the full body scan, even after I show them my military ID.

@sparky1991: I guarantee if you flew in your uniform (either your combat or dress uniform), you wouldn't get chosen.

I am not sure about Marines though, some services won't allow you to travel in uniform

@mrsbeny: And if you apply to the redress program, you will be put on another list.

I get dinged all the time... I have titanium wire and screws in my back and had knee replacement a about a year ago. I have a card the Dr's gave me I have to make sure I travel with... or I show my scares... lol

My husband has over a million miles on one carrier and at least 1/2 mil on another and he is always put through the scanner and extra screening. When we fly together, I go right through the low tech screening and they send my husband to the full body scanner all the time.

He flies weekly and he can sometimes be in three or more airports in a week. For some reason, TSA has not figured out that those who fly all the time are not the ones that need the extra screening.

I refuse to go through those scanners. I'm an innocent, US citizen, with the freedom to travel within my country without harassment, or being subjected to unlawful search and seizure. Luckily, I haven't had to step aside and be molested in a few years... For a while, I was absolutely pulled aside for every flight.

@sparky1991: I watched a TSA agent refuse to accept the Marine ID that my boss presented. That caused a bit of a stir, a visit by a supervisor, and an apology.

NEVER disrespect a Marine. Ever.

Apropos of this thread, I get secondary screening a lot due to a poor choice of surname.

You sound a lot like me, and I am almost never scanned. But the guys I travel with are. One does not fit any profiles and the other does. He is middle-40's, heavily bearded, pony tail to his waist, big guy, wears only tie-dye, board shorts and sandals (yeah, he's a programmer in Austin). I use citric acid on almost everything I eat, and I carry a little clear bag of it in my purse or wallet everywhere. He has complained on more than one occasion that there is no way he could get through Customs of a dozen different countries carrying a little baggie of white powder, yet I have never even been asked about it. I tell him he can dress like a drug dealer and skip the suspicious looking baggie, or dress like a bureaucrat and carry it.

@sparky1991: And the muscle tone. And the demeanor. We've got what I hear is the largest Army base in the country in town, and you can always recognize the GIs by those three things.

I have the same issue and at first my husband and i just laughed but its annoying now. I found out that the people who get checked are not randomly selected you are put on a list so everytime you fly you will be searched along with your bags. im trying to find the website you can go on and see your name on it and inquire why you are on it. I am also in my 30s caucation mommy of 3 who has never been in any kind of trouble but from what some airport personel have said you can request to be taken off explaining they have no reason to have you on the list. Good luck