"Most of us had not eaten all day because our C-rations had been confiscated at the airport because the rations set off the metal detectors. Yet, no food had been provided to the men, women, children, elderly, disabled as they sat for hours waiting to be 'medically screened' to make sure we were not carrying any communicable diseases."

From a very disturbing report by two Paramedics at:

http://www.emsnetwork.org/artman/pub...le_18337.shtml

The TSA at MSY should be ashamed of themsleves. I suggest that they be taken to the New Orleans Superdome and locked in there for a week.

The rest of the world is now seeing the true USA for what it is and not what they purport to be.

Maybe the screeners were hungry themselves?

C-rations aren't prohibited items. In fact, I didn't think c-rations were still in the inventory. If I'm not mistaken, they stopped making c-rations some time in the late 70's. There's a lot missing from this story, yet it seems that people are willing to jump to conclusions if it smacks negatively on TSA.

Here's one for you: I've had numerous hurricane survivors tell me that our security checkpoint was the first place where they were treated with any respect and the first time they felt like people rather than cattle.

It's always the reporting. It's NEVER the TSA.

Mind-boggling.

It's always the TSA, it's never the sensationalism of the press. If they tried to serve c-rations, they should be charged with attempted murder since c-rats have not been produced since the 70's. I'm sure the boxes still around are quite rancid by now. MRE's (which contain no metal) are now served, and by reports on the ground in MSY, quite plentiful. Sorry the logic doesn't support the outrage, but I'm sure you can (and will) blame something else on the TSA in the near future. Until then, I prefer not to believe too much that The Socialist Worker prints, seems they have a questionable agenda to say the least.

Have a great day all!

I lived in NOLA for 2.5 years. I traveled between the west and east banks almost every day. The Cresent City Connection bridge hasn't been called the Ponchotrain Expressway for many years. As for not letting blacks over the bridge, ummm, apparently this idiot doesn't know about the huge housing project at the bottom of the bridge on the west bank right hand side nor does this dolt know that the majority of Algiers and Gretna is black. Do your homework people. I find it somewhat strange that there were no other available buildings for shelter considering that there are several dozen hotels downtown not forget the River Walk Mall on the other side of the convention center (with a large parking garage across the street)and the aquarium right there also. As for the TSA screening, wait till you see the number of guns confinscated from those leaving from the airport.

It's all relative. If I were living in a state of anarchy for a week, surrounded by dead bodies and rapists, a little manhandling by the TSA would be welcome, relatively speaking.

I am a military wife and that is so full of bs. I haven't seen a c-ration in years. The MRES have nothing in them that would cause them not to clear the xray or the ctx machines.

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Some countries put some of their MREs in metal wrap of sorts that does set of the alarms and/or cannot be viewed by the x-ray when there are a bunch of them stacked together in a bag.

According to the British papers today, the US refused to allow in, some of the rations we planned ship as they had UK beef in them. This took three days to resolve. And these were for rations which the US had ASKED the UK for!

The original link to the EMS site (which seems to have disappeared BTW) was a first-hand account by two volunteers. They called the items c-rations but since those don't exist we don't know what it was that actually got confisc... voluntarily surrendered. I also got the sense it happened at their departure airport not MSY, unless TSA is now screening deplaning pax there.

I've herd MREs called "C Rations" when I was in the USAF. We used to have them during war games. It was used as kind of a generic term, like Q-tips or Kleenex.

That said however I've never seen one with metal in it. Some do have a chemically generated heating pack. I suppose there could be some metal in them, but I don't know. And I think I remember some things wrapped in foil.

This may be one of those things where something happens, and an incorrect reason for it is spread by rumor.

Also, these guys were civilians, yes?

If so, MANY non military types call them "C-Rations". It's what they've herd in all the movies.