My USN Top Secret Security Clearance (CW) was so thoroughly researched (by the FBI) that I feared for my shipmate’s Navy careers as they (only) discussed “lighting-up”.
This was only 10 years earlier than your experience.
‘Course NOW, I see headlines of smugglers getting HEROIN aboard ships!
(And FEMALE shipmates leaving the USN “Richer than Croesus”)...!
The USAF is less of a priority, as the FIBs have abandoned their mission—USAF aircraft mostly fly themselves—and Marijuana doesnt linger in the brain, right?
I didn’t want to leave you out 😔 .
See above...
And now, the White House is being “pimped-out” by cocaine.
You Navy guys always ran a tighter ship than the Air Force.
Seaman Flowers hand carried his NAF Tech Control 55-1 reports to our Comm Center and often stopped to visit with us in the Tech Control. Â We didn't have any gear or documents we had to scrub or cover. Â We couldn't visit the NAF facility because it was loaded with bays of crypto gear and other sensitive items in the open. Â I got to see it on an open house once and also visited the NSGA station a couple of miles away.
I found out years later that my background investigation may have been easier because my father and grandfather already had security clearances although not cleared for TS as far as I know.