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Airport Security, Baggage, or

MaintenanceWorker Join an active crew at a large or small airport. Help keep travelers and shipments safe in the air. Get your career off the ground.

words to understand municipal: relating to a city or town. perimeter: outer edge. warren: describes a building with a complicated layout of hallways and other spaces.

A irports are like little cities, complete with neighborhoods and roadways and people in motion 24 hours a day. Airports are also major employers. From the patrols that guard the fields and runways to the screeners who check travelers’ bags and luggage, jobs of all kinds abound at international and municipal airfields. With an increase in funding for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, there has been a similar increase in security-related jobs. You can also find employment as a service provider, helping people with luggage and directing them to the right gate. Or you can work to maintain the grounds, from the parking lots to the hangars to the runways.

t  An airport security officer stands guard, keeping an eye out for suspicious activity.