{"id":2088,"date":"2006-09-22T04:41:18","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T08:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/air_marshals_an\/"},"modified":"2006-09-22T04:41:18","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T08:41:18","slug":"air_marshals_an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/09\/air_marshals_an\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Marshals And Workers&#8217; Compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being an air marshal <a title=\"Air marshals' injuries raise lawmaker's concern\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/national\/20060921-121028-4277r.htm\">is a lot more physically demanding<\/a> than I imagined:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A key House member yesterday said that Congress should review the large number of federal air marshals sidelined by injuries sustained while protecting passengers from another September 11-style terrorist attack.<br \/>\nMore than 2,100, or nearly half the Federal Air Marshals Service&#8217;s peak force, have been awarded workers&#8217; compensation claims in the past three years, according to the Labor Department.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\n&#8220;I deal with pilots and flight attendants on aircraft all the time, and we don&#8217;t have that kind of record,&#8221; [ Rep. John L.] Mica said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here I thought that (absent an incident) air marshals essentially just rode around on the planes.  It would be interesting to compare this workers&#8217; compensation claim rate with that of flight attendants, who share similar working conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/09\/air_marshals_an\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Air Marshals And Workers&#8217; Compensation\"><p>Being an air marshal is a lot more physically demanding than I imagined: A key House member yesterday said that Congress should review the large number of federal air marshals sidelined by injuries sustained while protecting passengers from another September 11-style terrorist attack. More than 2,100, or nearly half the Federal Air Marshals Service&#8217;s peak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}