background check question!! HELP

[hanksate]

what is sci and prp? Does this mean that there is still hope for an honest person that made a mistake?

 

[talondriver]

what is sci and prp? Does this mean that there is still hope for an honest person that made a mistake?

read B-52 Gunner's posts below for SCI and PRP.
Sure there's hope for an honest guy who made "a" mistake. Now, if you were a dealin' pothead, you'll have a lot of explaining to do

 

[hanksate]

I was 15 or 16 and tried it some, thats it. I didnt think it would matter so much. Now I know, and I want to clear the air. Do you have any advice of who I should go to, or should I just wait and tell my TS interviewer? What are my avenues? Thank you for the advice.

 

[hanksate]

I'll take advice from anyone.

 

[LJDRVR]

Quite a bit of "barracks lawyering" goin' on here. What the heck, I'll add my two cents worth: For those of you who are enlisting, working on a commision, etc, refer to previous posts advocating telling the truth. If your big dilema when joining up is whether or not to tell the truth, then it's time for a gut check. TELL THE TRUTH! Every single time! If the transgression was minor, you probably don't have anything to worry about. If it costs you your opportunity, then so be it. Would you rather take your chances with not getting your shot, or roll the dice with potential disciplinary action or UCMJ fun? None of us are perfect, TELL them.

I'll speak from personal experience here, in seeing several of my troops getting denied their clearances; The DIA will uncover just about anything. Also,don't plan your actions based on whether or not you expect to ever get a certain clearance. When I joined the Air Force I got the standard "Secret" national agency check, never thinking I would need anything else. Four years later I was in a special duty assignment that required a clearance involving an investigation by a whole mess of alphabet agencies. Point here being you never know where you'll end up. Fess' up.

 

[T1bubba]

Hanksate,

As Moose mentioned quite correctly on the other thread, the issue for you is no longer whether or not you smoked pot. The issue for you is now how to deal with the fact that you have falsified government paperwork and made false statements on your previous application. This is a much more serious issue, and will very likely result in the denial of any high-level clearance if discovered.

The military usually takes the view that if you'll lie about one thing on your application, you'll lie about other things as well. They don't have the time to spend rechecking everything you've ever said so it's much easier to just deny the request for a clearance. I don't know what it would take for them to actively prosecute you for falsifying your previous application, but you may want to talk to a lawyer before you admit to anyone that you've falsified your paperwork.

Smoking pot won't generally matter much to anyone as long as it was in the past and not an everyday activity. Making false statements on an application for a clearance, however, will put you in a world of hurt.

If you're serious about 'fessing up on the pot smoking/paperwork falsifying, I would talk to a lawyer before proceeding any further.

LJDRVR- DIA investigates crimes. DSS does the vast majority of clearance investigations for the military.

T1
Ex-DSS contractor

 

[hanksate]

If this was something that I forgot, since it happened 10 years ago will it still be as serious an issue.

 

[T1bubba]

You forgot that you had smoked pot??? What else did you forget about?

There are really only two ways to look at it-

1. You actually can't remember what drugs you did or didn't do, in which case you are absolutely not cut out for life in the military.

2. You deliberately lied.

Smoking pot was absolutely not a big deal UNTIL YOU LIED ABOUT IT. Then it became falsifying government documents, an entirely different subject.

I'm not a military lawyer, so I won't try to guess the consequences of lying on your application paperwork. Once again I would advise you to talk to a lawyer before proceeding any further in this matter. I am sure a lawyer can give you better advice than anonymous people on an internet board.