Question by jj52225: Questions for military security clearances & careers? Serious, need help!?
Okay, I have some questions here about my career with the US military. I plan on serving 20 years active duty in the Marine Infantry. Im all signed up & ready to leave this summer. But Im going to warn you, this question is going to be long, so please bear with me and help me as best you can!

Before I go any further, I want to say that there is a story I need to tell because I feel that it needs to be known for you to better answer my question(s). So here it is:

OK, so I’ve already been to MEPs and passed through and joined the USMC Delayed Entry Program (DEP). Im set to leave for bootcamp this coming summer. The thing is, I TOLD MY RECRUITER EVERYTHING ABOUT ME, AND MY HISTORY REMEMBER THIS!!!! So when I was 13 years old, I got arrested for criminal mischief (misdemeanor) and I got put on juvenile probation for 2 months, and had to go to counseling to stay out of trouble (sort of like anger management, but not quite). Now when I was at the court, my parents thought I was smoking weed and they decided to ask and have the court drug test me. SO i ended up failing for marijuana and the court made me go to a DRUG AWARENESS/EDUCATION CLASS! This was not rehab, it was simply a class I had to go to with my parents 3 times. They basically just taught us about what drugs were, and how they can harm you. In fact it was called Eduvention. This was just a educational class about drugs, it was not rehab in any way.

So I told my recruiter everything that I just wrote above, from the criminal mischief to the probation and drug class. I also told him and MEPS the truth and confessed to smoking marijuana 15 times in my life. I know its retorted,but i;ll never do it again in my life its for losers.
But he (My recruiter) TOLD ME TO NOT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THE DRUG AWARENSS CLASS BECAUSE IT WAS NO BIG DEAL AND WASNT CONSIDERED REHAB, OR COUNSELING. He said “it wasn’t even considered counseling because counseling is when your 1 on 1 with a counselor, not in a classroom setting.” So I left out the part about the drug class when I went to MEPS, and still got into the Corps’ DEP.

But about a week or two after I had passed MEPS, I was interviewed by a OPM field agent for my SECURITY CLEARANCE. Now I’m Infantry, so I doubt i need a security clearance (a high one at that). SO i asked the investigator why I needed a security clearance if Im only going Infantry and I know they don’t need one and he told me he just had to do a preliminary investigation because I had admitted to using marijuana/drugs. He said they do it to everyone (which is true b/c someone else I know had the same done.)

So as he was interviewing me, he asked me if i had any counseling ever in my life. I told him the one about when the court made me go (which i told at MEPS). But I ended up telling him, he didn’t ask, I told him about the DRUG AWARENESS CLASS i went to because of my failed drug test at court. I TOLD HIM B/C I DIDN’T WANT TO LIE ABOUT ANYTHING AND HEAVE IT COME BACK AND BITE ME IN THE *** LATER IN MY MILITARY CAREER! This was all new information, so he wrote it all down. I explained to him why I didn’t say it at MEPS, and that I told my recruiter about it and told him exactly what my recruiter told me to do, and why I didn’t need to bring it up b/c it “wasn’t considered rehab or counseling”. He wrote down all of this and he even wrote down my recruiters name to prove the information.

So here is my main question:
Do you think that since I didn’t say anything about the Drug Class i attended at MEPS when i was 13, I’m 17 years old now, but ended up saying it on security clearance interview to be safe so it didn’t hurt my career in the long run that I ruined my chances of actually serving in the Active Duty?

***DO YOU THINK THAT WHAT I SAID DURING MY SECURITY CLEARANCE INTERVIEW ABOUT THE DRUG AWARENESS CLASS WILL CAUSE ME TO BE DQ’d AND KICKED OUT OF THE USMC FOR LYING AT MEPS??????????

TO all of you, this interview I had for my security clearance happened over 3 months ago!! Does this have any bearing??

Please, I know this is alot to read, and I tried to make as much sense as possible. If you took the time to read this, and answer my question I thank you soooo much! Please answer my questions accurately. Its not like I did anything wrong. I may have lied at first, but I think I told the truth where it counts, and that is on the security clearance. Please help me out, and answer this as best you can. You have no idea how much it will be appreciated!

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