“You take this job and your private life and that of your family is over.”
Active secret clearance. Anyone that has one already knows what it means.
“....About 5.1 million people — or more than 1.5 percent of the population — held security clearances last year, up from 4.9 million people with clearances the year before.....”
Its not that big of deal !
I imagine area 51 requires a double secret secret clearance.