Is security clearance deception or real thing with PTSD

SECURITY CLEARANCE DECEPTION
by Larry Scott -- Pentagon's

new policy leads troops to believe that mental health issues

will have no bearing on getting a security clearance.

Nothing could be further from the truth.


Security Clearance Deception

Pentagon’s new policy leads troops to believe that mental health issues will have no bearing on getting a security clearance. Nothing could be further from the truth.

by Larry Scott



Any service member who has ever had to apply for a security clearance has been handed the Standard Form 86, Questionnaire for National Security Positions. SF-86 is 13-pages long and very personal. It contains questions about the applicant, spouse, family, friends, employers, alcohol use, drug use, credit history, travel outside the country and much, much more.

For years, the one question that many objected to was number 21: “In the last 7 years, have you consulted with a mental health professional (psychiatrist, psychologist, counselor, etc.) or have you consulted with another health care provider about a mental health related condition?...If you answered ‘Yes,’ provide the dates of treatment and the name and address of the therapist or doctor below, unless the consultation(s) involved only marital, family, or grief counseling, not related to violence by you.”
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