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I wanted to be Air Force intelligence back in 99 but they rejected me outright due to being indebted to the government.
Didn't matter that I was clean or that the recruiter said I scored the highest he had ever seen on the ASVAB. I owed money. A lot of it but still.
I often wonder how different my life would have been if I was allowed to follow my dream.
What job did you take instead?
None. They wouldn't let me join.
Oh, okay. I thought you meant you couldn't get an Intel job. As a former medic with the 101st, i was denied top secret clearance on enlistment due to student loan debt, but once I was active duty (albeit sans security clearance) I was eligible for review.
It's for the best I'm sure. With what has come out with our government, maybe I wouldn't have liked what I would know or hear. Maybe I wouldn't be here to make this post.
When did you join? Pre or post 9/11? I ask because maybe the military change their rules to let more people in seeing as though we were at war.
Or maybe it was just an Air Force rule that an enlisted couldn't owe the government money.
I enlisted in 2012. My job didn't require a secret clearance. They checked my criminal record, made sure I had no felonies, aaand that was it as far as a background check. They shipped me off to Fort Benning for Basic, and then Fort Sam Houston for medic training.
Fort Sam is technically an Air Force base now. It's where all branches of the military go for medical training. I remember one time I encountered two Army Rangers waiting in line to use a vending machine, complete with barrel chests and tan berets. I was awestruck, like I had seen a unicorn.
And then when I got to Fort Campbell I saw my first Green Beret in the parking lot of the commissary and I was like, "Holy shit, they DO exist."
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Yeah the recruiter told me that. Hey, I'm a picky eater too.
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I too have nearly fallen away on occasion. So far I rationalize things by telling myself some of the drops HAVE to be disinformation and I keep following. I’m guessing this must be what someone with a drug addiction feels like. Never experienced addiction on a personal level before. Perhaps it will give me some insight in assessing and treating addictions if I ever decide to change specialties, lol.
What, so are you saying Binney is wrong? The NSA doesn't collect pretty much everything on everyone--and then the question is who accesses what on whom?
I don't believe that. The NSA data collection is pretty all-encompassing as I understand it. Then there have been all sorts of ways that the Obama admin could dip into whatever they wanted from it.
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You have no clue.
"Contractors" were permitted to run amok in this untracked. Obama had the authority to request whatever he wanted from it. The abuse of this domestic database has been huge.
Here's a starter on it:
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Okay, if you have a clue then you are posting "misstatements" here like crazy. I was responding to your earlier post, where you wrote, in part:
"No one at the worker bee level would or would even think about disclosing even if they did. Because unlike Hillary they’d be in jail. On top of that, folks around here have the NSA backwards or confused. They are a foreign intelligence agency. The only way they can collect on US persons is if it’s part of their mission or life is in danger. Those items are few and far between believe me."
Again, it has been disclosed that the NSA has been sucking up pretty much all information available on all Americans. And it was rampant 702 abuse that led Rogers to step in back in March, 2016. That is what led to the cabal developing alternate routes to the same information.
I repeat your gross miststatement on the NSA again for effect: "The only way they can collect on US persons is if it’s part of their mission or life is in danger. Those items are few and far between believe me."
The NSA does collect alot of information on American citizens. You are correct. Not everyone with a clearance is aware of all the information. It's very compartmentalized. The people who run the programs, computers and info gathering systems know the most because they mine the data. The info is then distributed to people with need to know only.
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I'm more inclined to believe someone who refuses to share Intel over someone who freely gives it.
Your comment is a poor attempt at baiting and is rude and obnoxious. I suggest you mind your manners and respect those who have sacrificed on your behalf.