Its a GOVERNMENT ISSUED ID!
I ONLY use my LTC as ID at the airport and I fly about once per month for business. Just two days ago I was at the Minneappolis airport and went through the process some foolishly call "security".
The first person I encounter is a woman sitting on a stool looking bored. (I don't know where she got such a tan in the middle of winter but she sure was darker than any other person I had seen in MN
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I hand her my boarding pass and MA LTC. After looking at my ID with an expression of confusion for a few moments, turning it over in her hand, she looks up at me and says in broken english "Do you have a drivers license"?
I looked her straight in the face and replied, "I'm FLYING, not DRIVING!"
Her reply was somthing to the effect of "We usually see D/L or passports."
I had to explain to her that what she was looking at was a GOVERNMENT ISSUED ID which was what was required. The fact that it is a much harder to get ID didn't seem to register with her.
She quickly gave up trying to understand the situation and simply waved me through.
What can we expect? As my father taught me many years ago, "You pay peanuts, you hire monkeys"
Just don't try to convince me that these facades do anything to enhance my safety while traveling.