The Federal Air Marshal Service is also a supportive and tight-knit community. Back in 2017, my son was diagnosed with stage 3 neuroblastoma cancer on his second birthday.

During the height of the border crisis, the federal government has been sending 200 air marshals to the border on 21-day deployments, leaving major flights vulnerable to threats, Sonya LaBosco, a ...

Amid an influx of illegal immigrants held in custody, the Federal Air Marshal Service asked for volunteers to deploy to the U.S.-Mexico border for 30 days in mid-2021.

Clay Biles, a former Navy SEAL who spent five years as a federal air marshal and wrote a book about them, estimated in 2014 that there were approximately 3,300 air marshals, of which about two ...

Some federal air marshals have been placed on administrative leave because they may have lied on their job applications, the government said. Brian Turmail, spokesman for the Transportation ...

The Transportation Security Administration's Office of Inspection has documented more than 200 cases of air marshals allegedly misusing firearms or misbehaving with guns between roughly 2005 and 2017.

The director of the Federal Air Marshal Service is responding to a scathing New York Times report that claims the organization has issues with alcohol abuse, harassment, and low morale in its ...

The Federal Air Marshal Service began in 1962 to combat air hijacking and greatly expanded after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, in which airliners were hijacked midflight.

The federal air-marshals program was created in 1961, during the Kennedy administration, in response to an increase in airline hijackings linked to Cuba.

While federal air marshals, or FAMs, have been a fixture of the U.S. aviation security system since 1962, they've become a lot more visible since 9/11, when they became part of the Transportation ...

With a requirement to be accurate at least 85 percent of the time, no other federal agent has sharper shooting skills than federal air marshals, who pose as passengers to provide the last line of ...

A tug of war has started at the Department of Homeland Security over the Federal Air Marshal Service, the armed undercover agents assigned to commercial flights. The air marshals want to leave the ...