[Scan-DC] Scanners at JSOH

[David Schoenberger]

For the past couple of years, I've been in e-mail contact with Capt.
Anna Carpenter in Public Affairs at Andrews. She has said both years
that scanners were permissible at the Open House. This year, when
trying to e-mail her, I got an automated reply that her tour was over
or something to that effect. So, I tried to e-mail the Public Affairs
Office at Andrews. No response. Today I called Public Affairs.
Couldn't get anybody on the phone, so asked the base operator to
transfer me to the Visitor Center number. The woman there said
scanners are not allowed at the show. I told her about Capt.
Carpenter's e-mails, and she decided me to transfer me to security/law
enforcement. Spoke to a gentleman there, and he said they weren't
allowed at first either. I told him about Capt. Carpenter's e-mails
and how they were not on the prohibited items list, and he said if I
wanted to bring them and possibly be hassled, then fine. Or I could
not bring them.

So that's the story for this year - I don't really have a definitive
answer. I have had good success in previous years getting through
security at the Branch Avenue Metro, so I think I'll probably give it
a go again. If anyone wants a copy of the e-mails from previous years,
I'd be happy to send them.

Dave