Secret security clearance ????????????

Probably not. Nobody cared about mine. A TWIC card will help though.

 

You could apply for work at TSMT

https://tristatesecured.com/

 

I can only recount what happened to my military secret clearance when I was discharged. I lost it. I was told to sign a paper promising to not divulge any secret stuff ( I had none to tell) and I left for the airport that evening. As the previous poster said, you might find a job with a company that does extensive work with the DoD.

 

It is probably more of a question of where you end up. I live on the Space Coast area of Florida, near Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral. Without a doubt having a Secret Clearance would help get driver's job. BTW, Unless things have changed, The clearance itself is good for 5 years, even if it is not 'active' and therefore you have no access to any classified info or space. However, it is easy paperwork to take the inactive clearance and make it active again, as long as the clearance itself is not 5 years old. Security Clearances require a 5 year renewal to remain available to use and is secondary to access. You must have both to actually see something classified or be somewhere requiring a clearance. But, without the clearance, you can not get the access and without the access, you can not see or be around classified stuff. Clear as mud?

 

It's the internet age.
Nothing's secret anymore.

 

Can't say, it's a secret.
Well, I could tell you. But, I'd have to kill you.

 

This thread is causing me to remember some of my experience while still in training. I did my Air Force technical school at Chanute AFB in Illinois from Jan 1976 to March 1976. Upon finishing up I was hoping to get out of there and spend some time at home before shipping out to my Duty station out in California. I was notified by my 1st Sgt that my security clearance was not back yet and it was overdue. To make a long story short about a week later I had my orders travel pay and on a bus headed south. My C.O. told me if the report did not come in before I left home I had to come back there AND would have to refund all the travel money and lose the leave time. I was home for 10 days and on or about the 8th day I got word it had come back OK. To this day I have no idea why I was required to have one. I asked once and got a ####&bull story about having access to schedules. These were the same schedules posted on the walls.

 

I doubt a Secret clearance would help get a driving job, but it would certainly speed up your TSA background check.

 

While I was in the military, I had a Top Secret and worked in the Intelligence community. For my clearance, they actually sent 2 FBI Agents to my hometown to ask teachers, my friend's parents and the local law folks about me. They did not say what the questioning was in connection with and next time I came home on leave, boy did lots of folks come up with some crazy speculations. Anyway, I have an FBI background file on me. Whenever I have had to call to get approval to get a firearm, the check goes through almost instantly and the clerk is usually a little startled it went through so fast. I'm really not sure one is related to the other or if others actually usually have a longer wait. But, it has happened 3 times on me that the clerk was surprised by the speed the check came back approved. I don't expect any issues with the TSA background check. Especially since I additionally worked for the Federal Government for the last 20 years, although I was in the Department of the Interior and did not have or need a security clearance.