My 21 yr old son just got a security clearance in his
Army job. They looked up the nun that taught him in 6th grade in Alaska.
In talking to me they dwelt on his out of US travel that consisted of driving from Alaska to Colo when he was 12.
Imagine roaming around Pak in your 20s?
Congrats on your son’s clearance ... that is GOLD in today’s labor market. When I went thru a clearance decades ago, they went to homes of my school mates’ parents. Fortunately, they never got to any of the nuns who taught me!
Once they begin the process, they don’t fool around ... at least for mere mortals. For POTUS/CiC, I guess it’s different.