Holy cow...

At 10:30 AM 8/6/04 -0400, you wrote: I used to travel frequently for my job as an aerospace engineer for Martin Marietta. When I traveled outside the US I was given security briefings and warnings that were much more in depth than what the general public gets. One of the things that I was specificly warned about was NOT to carry anything that would identify me as an employee of a military contractor or any id from any government agency. They were afraid that if we were hijacked and the hijackers found the id then we'd be in for a LOT of trouble. In addition if we were taken to a not so friendly country we could be held by that country while they tried to pick our brains (forceably!) I used to carry my Canadian birth certificate as well as my US one and the Canadian one would usually get me into (or out of!) any place that the US one wouldn't. I generally found that a company id didn't help much with customs. They never seemed to be impressed. They were more receptive to the idea that I was a computer or calculator collector and that was why I was carrying around all that odd junk. Joe