TSA Precheck is a blessing especially when you travel out of the country, it makes customs coming back a breeze! And i have yet to get a flight without it!
Global Entry. That got you Pre, but it's GE that gets you breezily back into the country.
And all my companions also get the TSA when I associate my flight with theirs.
Lucky! That doesn't tend to happen with us.
TSA has never stopped a malicious attack.
True. And I'm not sure that anything "they" did nearly 14 years ago would have been stopped if they had TSA then. IMO the biggest thing they had was *conviction* that what they were doing should be done, combined with fellow passengers not knowing or expecting something like it.
My brother was ranting that even the whole "you can carry an empty water bottle through and fill it post-security" thing puts a lie to our needing to keep liquids under 100ml. Because the empty bottle gives us a container to mix all those 100ml bottles of liquid. I hadn't thought about it that way.
It's underwear...plain and simple.
Ah, well, I routinely wear Old Navy camisoles to yoga class and to lift weights in. So for me they are clothing.
The other one that gets flagged often is if my hair is being really frizzy/poofy that day my pony tail is sometimes big enough to flag in the scanner.
Wow!
I don't do the nekkid scanner. I'm fine being patted down and always allow myself extra time just in case. At least they don't get confused by hair.
TSO: Ma'am; we only want to have one pair of shoes out of the bag; the ones you wore into the airport.
LOL. I would be that that one is so they can see if the shoes you were wearing have "residue" on them. Of course, you could EASILY switch out those shoes when you step in the building, when you are in your car, etc etc.
My brother and his wife enjoy their time at the shooting range, and because they fly often they now have a uniform they wear for the range. Same shoes, same pants, etc. Those items do not get worn for anything else.
DH once took a walk through a maintained, kept-up, park in Mexico City the day of his flight. He got MEGA checked at security there. They took away his shoes (which tested positive for something), swabbed his hands, which also tested positive...the guard realized why when DH politely mentioned that they had, of course, just had him take off his shoes and hand them to the guard, which of course means he touched his shoes with his hands and therefore his hands would have whatever his shoes had on them. Since DH doesn't shoot, and definitely doesn't do so in Mexico City LOL, he realized that there must have been some chemical in what they were using in the park, that triggered the alarm there.
(The reason I request a glove change anytime a screener wants to touch my or anything other than the outside of my possessions.) It's interesting that I seldom alarm the WTMD although when I do that involves a full body grope. 
