The Federal Air Marshal Service is also a supportive and tight-knit community. Back in 2017, my son was diagnosed with stage 3 neuroblastoma cancer on his second birthday.

Some federal air marshals have been placed on administrative leave because they may have lied on their job applications, the government said. Brian Turmail, spokesman for the Transportation ...

After the 9/11 attacks, the federal government assembled a small army of undercover air marshals to protect U.S. flights and prevent similar hijackings. The prestigious, new law enforcement job ...

The director of the Federal Air Marshal Service is responding to a scathing New York Times report that claims the organization has issues with alcohol abuse, harassment, and low morale in its ...

With a requirement to be accurate at least 85 percent of the time, no other federal agent has sharper shooting skills than federal air marshals, who pose as passengers to provide the last line of ...

During the height of the border crisis, the federal government has been sending 200 air marshals to the border on 21-day deployments, leaving major flights vulnerable to threats, Sonya LaBosco, a ...

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.

In one of those measures, Congress transformed the modest Federal Air Marshal Service, which had 50 agents before Sept. 11 trying to deter hijackings on high-risk routes, ...

Clay Biles, a former Navy SEAL who spent five years as a federal air marshal and wrote a book about them, estimated in 2014 that there were approximately 3,300 air marshals, of which about two ...

Sept. 28 -- Since the Sept. 11 hijackings of four passenger jets, one idea that has garnered near universal acceptance is an immediate and permanent expansion of the Federal Air Marshal program ...

The Federal Air Marshal Service is facing allegations of workplace discrimination and intoxicated guards that have prompted a government investigation, The New York Times reported. The ...