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Originally Posted by strat
Hello everybody! I'd first like to thank you all for being on this site and allowing me to become a part of it. I am 24 years old and in the middle of December this year I will earn my BS in chemistry. I am enlisting in the army immediately afterwards.
I have wanted to be in the Army Special Forces since I was about 7 years old. I joined the Sea Cadets when I was 11 and stayed in it until I was 16. Every summer I spent time on a different military base in the country learning about different jobs but always I wanted SF. Shortly after I graduated high school I lost site of that goal temporarily. I was arrested with a pipe that had marijuana in it. The judge reduced the charge from possession of marijuana to possession of paraphernalia and I completed 90 days unsupervised probation. I've been clean since and am working hard to achieve my goal.
I'm signing an 11b contract with airborne. I wanted Rangers but a Secret clearance is required and my recruiter told me there was no way it would be granted to me. So I am going to go airborne and soldier my butt off. Do nothing less than the best I can. I hope that the army will look past my mistake and one day grant me a clearance so I can attend Ranger school and eventually live my dream of standing with SF operators. .
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Very interesting intro, however unless this is part of your 12 step program just a little too much information here. But as long as you brought it up, I am a little perplexed by the statement made to you by your recruiter about your inability to be granted a secret clearance just for the possession of drug paraphenalia and not the possession or use of marijuana. If this is going to follow you forever, then why are you even bothering to enlist? I know at least one graduate of a service academy that got into the academy with a single use conviction on his record so unless the rules have really changed in the past couple of decades something seems amiss here. Then of course there are some folks that have had maximum exposure to some of our highest secrests that not only possessed-oh right, they did not inhale-I forgot. I also find it interesting that after having explored "better living" thru chemistry that you now have decided to get a legitimate degree in the field. Good on you for that. I really think, however, that before you sign on the dotted line you better find out specifically what it is going to take for you to be granted a secret clearance so you know exactly what your long term options are. Just a thought.