Little is released to the public about how, why and where federal air marshals operate. As they transit through airports and board flights, they resemble passengers just like us — napping occasionally ...

While federal air marshals, or FAMs, have been a fixture of the U.S. aviation security system since 1962, they've become a lot more visible since 9/11, when they became part of the Transportation ...

The Transportation Security Administration's Office of Inspection has documented more than 200 cases of air marshals allegedly misusing firearms or misbehaving with guns between roughly 2005 and 2017.

The Federal Air Marshal Service is considered the last line of defense in our nation's aviation security. Its mission: to deploy armed, undercover agents on selected domestic and international ...

Federal air marshal program under attack in Congress 02:38. WASHINGTON --America's federal air marshal program has come under attack in Congress, with suggestions that the program is wasteful and ...

The federal air-marshals program was created in 1961, during the Kennedy administration, in response to an increase in airline hijackings linked to Cuba.

Dec. 8, 2005 — -- The air marshal who shot and killed a passenger who made a bomb threat reacted as trained, says a spokesman for the Federal Air Marshal Service. "This was a textbook ...

Federal Air Marshals endure repeated quarantine, and are deploying continuously to the world’s contaminated hotspots. They resolutely accept that they will be exposed to infection while traveling to ...

Federal air marshals are described as the "last line of defense" against terrorist attacks in the sky, but whether they are living up to their billing is being challenged. Dwindling ranks ...

The Federal Air Marshal service currently has the lowest flight coverage since the 9-11 attacks. The agency his experiencing an extraordinary high retirement rate due to low morale and most agents ...

But some employees of the Federal Air Marshal Service are suspected of rearranging flights in order to meet for sexual trysts. Posted in Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, National Security House ...

Feb. 7, 2012 — -- Managers at the Federal Air Marshal Service regularly made fun of blacks, Latinos and gays, took taxpayer-paid trips to visit families and vacation spots, and acted like a ...