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The person sitting next to you on the plane may be armed, and that's not a bad thing. Today on

Deviant Offscript, we're going to look at the secretive world of the air marshals, the federal air marshals. We're talking to David Lando, who's the president of the Air Marshal National Council, and he's going to take us inside the secretive world. You may think you know about air marshals and what they do, but you don't. I learned all sorts of stuff. I was surprised. He's also one of the people behind the definitive documentary about air marshals, unseen, unheard, and unafraid.

Available now. Let's learn about air marshals. It's Deviant. Off script.

David Londo, president of the Air Marshal National Council.

Thank you so much for being with us here today on Deviant Offscript.

Thank you so much for having me.

I appreciate it.

Yeah, it's great to have you.

And I am a, I'm a nerd about air travel, always have been, worked for an airline for a very short time a long time ago.

Anyway, let's talk about air marshalling and what it is and how you got into it.

I don't know if air marshaling is actual, it's a verb, but tell us a little bit about yourself.

You grew up in, you grew up in Massachusetts, and how did the journey start for you?

Yeah, so my journey started here on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where I began my career as a local police officer here on the Cape in the town of Dennis.

And I got sick.

After a few years of doing the local police thing, I got sick of chasing around drunken Kennedys on the Cape.

I wanted something more.

So I got lucky enough to get picked up by the Virginia State

Police of the state trooper, where I served there, down there for several years, really up until

and just beyond 9-11. Then once 9-11 hit, my world, just like everyone else's world changed.

And I remember hearing in the aftermath, aftermath watching the news and I saw on the

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