Comments on: My father-in-law’s World War II-era TWIC card http://www.pugetsoundmaritime.com/2009/10/my-father-in-laws-world-war-ii-era-twic-card/ Maritime news and resources in and around Puget Sound Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:06:41 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: william davis http://www.pugetsoundmaritime.com/2009/10/my-father-in-laws-world-war-ii-era-twic-card/comment-page-1/#comment-791 william davis Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:19:04 +0000 http://www.pugetsoundmaritime.com/2009/10/my-father-in-laws-world-war-ii-era-twic-card/#comment-791 our ship agency is owned by T. Parker Host, Inc. of Norfolk, which is a traditional family operated ship agency est. in 1923 Mr. Host, now in his upper 80's, has an interesting collection of curios in his office, one of which being a similar ID issued by the USCG from when he boarded ships under his father during WWII i have often made reference to Mr. Host's ID in conversation's about TWIC issues, in truth, i am a supporter of TWIC, i think it's a good system, clearly covert attacks and intelligence gathering on merchant cargo movements during WWII were a grave concern to port security back then, what took them so long to reinvent the system in 2008/2009 ? the frustration with TWIC is the lack of uniformed escort proceedure's and card readers in us ports, also, ports that have a two creditional system like here in florida, where due to a state law, you must still maintain a local port badge in addition to your TWIC (jaxport nor georgia port's have TWIC card readers) i guess all due course... our ship agency is owned by T. Parker Host, Inc. of Norfolk, which is a traditional family operated ship agency est. in 1923

Mr. Host, now in his upper 80’s, has an interesting collection of curios in his office, one of which being a similar ID issued by the USCG from when he boarded ships under his father during WWII

i have often made reference to Mr. Host’s ID in conversation’s about TWIC issues, in truth, i am a supporter of TWIC, i think it’s a good system, clearly covert attacks and intelligence gathering on merchant cargo movements during WWII were a grave concern to port security back then, what took them so long to reinvent the system in 2008/2009 ?

the frustration with TWIC is the lack of uniformed escort proceedure’s and card readers in us ports, also, ports that have a two creditional system like here in florida, where due to a state law, you must still maintain a local port badge in addition to your TWIC (jaxport nor georgia port’s have TWIC card readers)

i guess all due course…

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