it’s looking like I’ll be put up for a TS soon as my first job out of college requires one, and I’m worried about getting my clearance.
One of my main concerns revolves around an incident from almost 2 years ago now. What happened was that I was at an event for a university club being held at a nightclub and was dancing w/ a friend of mines. I generally don’t drink very much at all but was heavily intoxicated that one night and misread some social cues and grinded on my friend. This resulted in them raising a formal complaint thru the club leadership concerning the incident which was classed as an “adverse social interaction”.
I felt extremely bad about this and took full responsibility for my actions and was allowed to remain a member of the club and carry out my normal duties. In the aftermath of the incident I also voluntarily attended therapy and put myself through online sensitivity training as I want to ensure something like this never happens again.
Do I have to list this on my SF-86? As I mentioned it was kept entirely within the club admin and didn’t proceed any higher, so I’m not convinced it would show up on any background investigation unless they talked to the right people, which is admittedly likely. This makes me think it might be best to disclose via the comments section of the form so I can get ahead of any surprise discoveries.
Yeah that’s what I was thinking, my one concern was that there’s that question that asks something along the lines of “has alcohol use affected your work/personal/etc. relationships?” and wasn’t sure if I had to disclose there.
I would list it in the section that talks about adverse effects of alcohol use, as you stated. I doubt it will disqualify you but hiding it is not a good way to go. It will probably come up through other avenues so listing it looks better.
Ok, that’s what I was thinking myself w/ regards to disclosing.
My biggest fear is probably getting screwed at the suitability phase, as at that point there really doesn’t seem like much you can do in the way of appealing.
Aside from that my only other red flag would be very occasional weed usage throughout college that was obtained from a dispensary by a friend (on a single occasion). It’s been a year since I did any of that though and towards the end I only really used it to help with some back pain, and then ended up throwing the rest in the trash.
I’d be more concerned about the weed use. It is more recent and you did not take all the rehabilitative actions like you did on the other incident to prevent further incidents. May not be a huge deal, who knows, but it is more recent and by the sound of it, you used on multiple occasions (even if not often) so it was not a one time accident/indiscretion.