FEDERAL AIR MARSHAL SERVICE

Federal Air Marshal Service

Federal Air Marshal Service

Introduction

Federal law enforcement agency responsible for monitoring of suspicious activity and identification of threats at airports and on commercial flights is known as Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) (Duncan Commends Air Marshal Funding Cut, 2012). The department works under direct supervision of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) (Lord, 2009). Federal Air Marshal Services are designed to encourage civil aviation authority, while their primary duty is to identify, repeal or foil any threats to United States of America. FAMS carry out weapons and remain prepared for any unpredictable situation, without even threatening spectator. The nature of job of Federal Air Marshal (FAM) demand frequently travels; whereas Federal Air Marshal personnel are ranked among the armed personnel having high hand gun accuracy (Duncan Blasts "Useless" Air Marshal Service, 2009). This paper in connection to FAMS will describe the air marshal program of counter terrorism completely, while discussing its successes, failures, costs and effectiveness.

Discussion

The Federal Air Marshal Program can be better understood by getting an insight into the happenings in that period as well as getting to know as to why it was taken up. For this purpose, the success of Federal Air Marshal Program, the cost of Federal Air Marshal Program as well as the reasons behind the failure of the Federal Air Marshal Program.

Success of Federal Air Marshal Program

The major success cited of Federal Air Marshal Program is that makes air travelling and airport of United States of America safe. Most of the people, after the incident of 9/11 were concerned about the air traveling safety, however, with the presence of Federal Air Marshal on flight people feel safer (Duncan Commends Air Marshal Funding Cut, 2012). Another success of the program can be cited as no terrorist attack since 9/11. This has been cited as one of the major success of Federal Air Marshal Program, because after the 9/11 terrorist did not attack United States. Federal Air Marshal Program is introduced, and people all over the world were aware about the unidentified Federal Air Marshal on board, which prevail threat of being caught at the earliest among terrorists (Duncan Blasts "Useless" Air Marshal Service, 2009). Terrorist are now more reluctant to use any commercial or non commercial flight to be used as a tool to carry out terrorists attack, because of the introduction of such programs all over the world. Federal Air Marshal Personnel are trained professional who have the instinct to sense any threat, and with their skills they have the capabilities to prevent any known or unknown danger (Lord, 2009).

Civil aviation personnel are supported with this program who like many other people have developed a sense of vulnerability on airports and commercial flights. The presence of Federal Air Marshal Personnel on board also helps them to feel safe and secure, which can also be cited as the success of the program (Atkins, 2011).

Cost of Federal Air Marshal Program

The cost of Federal Air Marshal Program ...