In recent times, I’ve written about air marshals on Royal Jordanian , and about security officers on EgyptAir , whereby virtually all flights have these people onboard. Here in the United States we have air marshals, and in this post, I’d like to talk about the current state of the program, as I understand it. I figure this makes for a fun topic for those of us who are aviation geeks, though let me acknowledge that a lot of the information about the program is confidential, so much of this is just speculation. What are federal air marshals, and what do they do? How many flights have federal air marshals? How can you spot a federal air marshal? Bottom line What are federal air marshals, and what do they do? While there are some sort of air marshals in many countries (in particular countries like Israel, Egypt, Jordan, etc.), I’ll be focusing on the Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) for the purposes of this post.…