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TSA: 20 years of airport security

 

Over the weekend, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration celebrated the 20th anniversary of its first airport security checkpoint, which went into service at Baltimore on April 30, 2002, months after the 9/11 attacks. A ceremony at the airport Friday marked the occasion.

TSA replaced a variety of local and contract security provisions that were set up immediately after 9/11. The Baltimore checkpoint was not only the first, it was the prototype and testing ground for systems and procedures that today have expanded to 430 airports around the country. The photo above is from Day 1.

Most travelers today have either no memory or vague ones of the days when it was possible to simply walk into an airport and head for the gate area, or to wait at the gate for arriving family and friends. But despite that time and memory gap, over a hundred of the agents working at BWI have been there since the beginning. The agency has over 64,000 employees today.

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