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===United States=== {{Main|Federal Air Marshal Service}} The US [[Federal Aviation Administration]] began its sky marshal program in 1968, which eventually became the FAA Federal Air Marshal Program, in 1982; the program later became the [[Federal Air Marshal Service]] in January 2002 and after the handover of FAA security duties to the [[Transportation Security Administration]].<ref name="amazon.com">{{cite book|author=Clay Biles|title=The United States Federal Air Marshal Service: Fifty Years of Service: a Historical Perspective, 1962β2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sMBWmwEACAAJ|year=2013|publisher=Clay Biles|isbn=978-0-615-79900-1}}</ref> In 2005, [[Rigoberto Alpizar]] was shot dead by two sky marshals on a [[jetway]] at [[Miami International Airport]]. Currently, federal air marshal officers are under the Transportation Security Administration. Under the [[Visible Intermodal Prevention Response]] (VIPR) system, started around 2005, federal air marshals began to patrol non-aviation sites like bus terminals and train stations.
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