Do you really believe that "enemy" is waiting to hear combat formation on frequency?
Not at all. That's certainly not the only way to gather useful information either.
ATCO: TOMCAT 01, Good morning,ACC radar, Set squawk 3421
PIC: TOMCAT 01 squawk 4321
ATCO: TOMCAT 01 negative,squawk 3421
PIC: TOMCAT01 squawk 3421 coming down
ATCO: Identified, turn left heading 320 ,vectoring for separation
PIC: TOMCAT 01 turning left heading 320, could you give us QNH
ATCO: TOMCAT 01,QNH is 1013
PIC: TOMCAT 01 QNH is 1013
ATCO: Correct,now clear of traffic,radar vectoring for separation is terminated,position 10 Nm north east of VOR ,own navigation direct to OBJECT!
10 years of foreign habits and phraseology to un-learn. (Sigh) You would be a project.
Solid air force background plus 10+ years of experience as civil ATCOs at different places ,different countries, during difficult times
(yawn) You'd be pretty low on the senority list at my facility. MY EOD date is 1979.
Paranoid Yanks,
Why don't you stop invading countries, then there might not be a security issue.
How can an ATCO that has passed security checks in a country that happens to support your country in the wars it faces, still not have the right to work in the USA?
Well, I didn't intend to debate the neocons' fantasy of installing a peaceful Starbucks franchise in hundreds of foreign villages. But you might consider that those same neocons are presently in charge of deciding who's a security risk, and who's not.
In any event, disregarding our obvious difference of professional opinion about security, it seems a moot point. Anyone with that much distaste for the U.S. Govt would obviously never be a good fit as an employee of same. And it wouldn't take a Major Burns to figure that out.
"Cheers".