Did they interview people? If I’m remembering correctly, I think the interviews only came for TS, and the polys were for special compartments. They didn’t have remotely the personnel to apply the Full Monty for everyone who needed a clearance.
TV makes it seem like clearances are big deals only for the most patriotic special agents, but in reality it’s tons of military personnel and civilian contractors and they take forever and a day to actually happen. And then every year you take training that is so easy it seems designed to make sure no one can fail.
To other readers, don’t get a security clearance if it’s optional, it mostly just sucks.
Basically they did a background check, looking for criminal records and credit report, I had to give references, they contacted one of the three I gave, and I guess they did a background check on the person they contacted, but I never took a polygraph. But being 18, I had no criminal record and essentially no credit at all.
I had a secret clearance in my army days, 02-08. There was no polygraph at all.
Did they interview people? If I’m remembering correctly, I think the interviews only came for TS, and the polys were for special compartments. They didn’t have remotely the personnel to apply the Full Monty for everyone who needed a clearance.
TV makes it seem like clearances are big deals only for the most patriotic special agents, but in reality it’s tons of military personnel and civilian contractors and they take forever and a day to actually happen. And then every year you take training that is so easy it seems designed to make sure no one can fail.
To other readers, don’t get a security clearance if it’s optional, it mostly just sucks.
Basically they did a background check, looking for criminal records and credit report, I had to give references, they contacted one of the three I gave, and I guess they did a background check on the person they contacted, but I never took a polygraph. But being 18, I had no criminal record and essentially no credit at all.