After reading the information on the TWIC web page, I can see the usefulness of having such a document available to the proper authorities, but those of us who currently have licenses were supposedly good to go for five years. The USCG and TSA should have the latest tools available to them in order to do their important (I think, anyway) jobs, but the heavy-handedness of the current approach seems pretty thuggish: cough up the extra dough or we'll break your kneecaps.
I see on the web page referenced in an earlier post that there's an option to pay a slightly reduced fee for a TWIC card with a shorter lifespan if you're in the middle of a license cycle, but the reduction in fees is relatively minor, especially if you only had another year or so before you were up for renewal anyway. Better to require the TWIC card for all new licenses ( I read that that might end up being the case.) Either that, or should you choose not to comply with the new requirements for whatever reason, a pro-rated refund of your already paid license fees should be forthcoming. One thing I've been wondering though: since this new program affects so many, and is supposedly so critical to our national security, and must be implemented with such breathless haste, why not let us in on it? I first heard about it on this very list. The USCG certainly knows how to get ahold of me. To use current text message shorthand: WTF? Mark Mowery Gazelle Lake Huron _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
